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: sara-lee-corporation.
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.
3 filings
$420K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$360K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$100K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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
Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities Act
1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3936112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Acid Yellow 137.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4213112th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to require judges of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to reside within fifty miles of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 174112th CongressHeLP America Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 2882112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic snow globes.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 510112th CongressROADS SAFE Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 4986110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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.
The Duberstein Group Inc.
Covered position: Sr. Ldrship Advisor, Sen. Dorgan
2 filingsthrough 2008
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: ExecFlrAsst, H. Maj. Whip; ExecDir, H.DemCauc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
