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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$965K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$785K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3521113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 4853111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (18 yrs), US Representative (2 yrs)16 filingsthrough 2013
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: Sen. Breaux Staff, 98-0414 filingsthrough 2013
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: shaw-group-inc.
DIS
9 filings
$725K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
3 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$200K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$70K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
1 filingthrough 2010
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.
5 filingsthrough 2012
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (19 yrs), US Representative (1 yr)4 filingsthrough 2010
