22 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Aug 17, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 36 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4718113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent bonus depreciation.4 filingsthrough 2014
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: ryder.
113th Congress
Bonus Depreciation Extension Act of 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4196112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the allowance for bonus depreciation for certain business assets.2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5450110th CongressModernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5199113th CongressMunicipal Bond Market Support Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 1859113th CongressTax Extenders Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 4281112th CongressSurface Transportation Extension Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
