32 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Oct 20, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$16.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$16.3M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$375K
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
30 filings
$16.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$16.4M on those filings
Banking
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 51 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1872113th CongressBudget and Accounting Transparency Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 34112th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021.5 filingsthrough 2012
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: sallie-mae.
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.
BAN
20 filings
$16.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
20 filings
$16.3M on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$3.2M 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.
112th Congress
Prevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2561113th CongressFAIR Student Credit Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.Con.Res. 112112th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1102112th CongressFairness for Struggling Students Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1777111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3126111th 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.
