Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Railroads
RRR
9 filings
$170K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1195110th CongressSAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1584110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate9 filingsthrough 2010
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: rj-corman-railroad-group.
1 filing
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
S. 881110th CongressShort Line Railroad Investment Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2886110th CongressAlternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2095110th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
through 2010
Thomas CrawfordC2 Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2010
David Patrick RobertsonC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Aide & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Rockefeller4 filingsthrough 2010
