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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
68 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
40 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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 2022.8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 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: sallie-mae-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.
BUD
39 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN
25 filings
$743K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$675K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
12 filings
$213K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
8 filings
$370K 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.
8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 114113th CongressFairness for Struggling Students Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20136 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3581112th CongressBudget and Accounting Transparency Act of 20125 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1102112th CongressFairness for Struggling Students Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1651112th CongressHonest Budget Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3219111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6889110th CongressTo extend the authority of the Secretary of Education to purchase guaranteed student loans for an additional year, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1294113th CongressTennessee Wilderness Act4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3056110th CongressTax Collection Responsibility Act of 20074 filingsthrough 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.
13 filingsthrough 2014
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Asst Ofc of the Speaker, House Rep. Whip13 filingsthrough 2014
Deirdre StachMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Budget Analyst, House Science Committee13 filingsthrough 2014
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress12 filingsthrough 2014
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secy, Leg. Aide, Rep. Edward Markey12 filingsthrough 2014
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)12 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan SchwantesClark & WeinstockCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Cmte (Kohl)12 filingsthrough 2011
Deirdre StachClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Director, Rep. Robert Walker12 filingsthrough 2011
James DyerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Dep Asst to Pres/Leg Affairs (House), White Hous12 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Assistant, House Republican Whip12 filingsthrough 2011
David LeiterMl Strategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2010
