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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$600K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
9 filings
$530K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Stacey HughesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Cmte, Dpty Staff Dir;Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Ldr (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Min. Ldr (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv.;Senate Spec. Cmte on Aging (Sen.Cohen),Prof. Staff Member; U.S.Sen Connie Mack, Leg Asst/Schdlr13 filingsthrough 2020
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv.;U.S. Senator Don Nickles,Leg Asst13 filingsthrough 2020
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: send-relief-inc.
BUD
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
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.
116th Congress
Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 695115th CongressChild Protection Improvements Act of 20171 filingthrough 2018
S. 2808115th CongressTOOLS to Rehabilitate Communities Act1 filingthrough 2018
S. 2873115th CongressPuerto Rico Economic Empowerment Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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.
12 filings
through 2020
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator7 filingsthrough 2019
Mary Beth Savary TaylorThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Joint Economic Committee, General Counsel; U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant3 filingsthrough 2020
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir.; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Correspondent2 filingsthrough 2019
Emily PorterThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Ofce of Spkr(Rep.Boehner),Asst to Spkr,Policy;Ofce of Min.Leader(Rep.Boehner),Plcy Adv;Ofce of the Maj. Ldr(Rep. Boehner),Plcy Adv;Cmte Ed & the Wrkfrc(Rep.Boehner),Coaltions Dir. for Educ Plcy; Rep.Trent Franks,Sr.Leg.Asst; Rep.Tom Tancredo,Leg.Asst1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
