7 filings from 2 registrants · 2016–2017 · latest filed Jan 21, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$120K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$120K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Arts/Entertainment
ART
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
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.
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: seattle-opera.
$50K
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.
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$50K 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.
4 filingsthrough 2016
John GreenCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Aide, Senator Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2017
Stewart HallCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby2 filingsthrough 2017
Jason Benjamin Van PeltCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior LA, LA, Staff Asst: Cong. Ed Whitfield2 filingsthrough 2017
Chris J MillerCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: CoS Rep. Reichert (R-WA), Senior LA Rep. Miller (R-CA), Staff Asst. Sen. Smith (R-OR)2 filingsthrough 2017
Chris J MillerCapitol Strategies Partners LLCCovered position: Rep. Reichert (R-WA), Rep. Miller (R-CA), Sen. Smith (R-OR)1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 17 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
