Science Coalition

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.

1. Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)

   31 filings · 2008–2017

   $620K

   fees reported

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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.

1. Budget/Appropriations

   BUD

   30 filings

   $600K on those filings

2. Science/Technology

   SCI

   30 filings

   $600K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.

• H.R. 1 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009

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.