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.
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: safeway-inc.
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.
FOO
29 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$680K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$770K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$640K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
2 filings
$160K 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.
114th Congress
Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015
6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2017114th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 592114th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 314114th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 511114th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.4 filingsthrough 2015
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Robert C JonesAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Barbara Mikulski; Counsel, Senate Approps.13 filingsthrough 2013
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLP11 filingsthrough 2013
Frank AlvarezJackson Lewis PC9 filingsthrough 2013
JOSEPH J LAZZAROTTI esqJackson Lewis PC9 filingsthrough 2013
Marc J GersonMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: House Ways & Means Comm., Tax Counsel9 filingsthrough 2012
Phillip L MannMiller & Chevalier, Chtd9 filingsthrough 2012
Stephanie A KennanAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Sr. Health Pol. Adv'r, Sen. R. Wyden7 filingsthrough 2011
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher5 filingsthrough 2009
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)5 filingsthrough 2009
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)4 filingsthrough 2008
Lawrence B GibbsMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: Commissioner of Internal Revenue4 filingsthrough 2008
Elizabeth HoganQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsstDOC,AssocDir EOP,Intern Rep J McCrery4 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher MccannellQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: CosCrow.CDHoy.PSKanj.SpAsstLaut.SAMitch4 filingsthrough 2008
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll4 filingsthrough 2008
James L AtkinsonMiller & Chevalier, Chtd4 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Jack QuinnQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Counsel Pres Clinton, CoS Vice Pres Gore3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen3 filingsthrough 2008
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 21 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
