49 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Jan 19, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$940K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$940K
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.
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
39 filings
$800K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$570K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5385116th CongressTo amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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: shotspotter-inc.
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.
URB
19 filings
$440K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
19 filings
$440K on those filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$160K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$160K on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$10K 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.
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008
1 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20091 filingthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20091 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.
Covered position: 2002-2004: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill; 2005-2006: Legislative Director, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2006-2009: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2009-2011: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2011-2015: Chief of Staff, Rep. John Carney
11 filingsthrough 2020
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 95 Asst Secretary for the Minority, Senate
95-01 Secretary for the Minority, Senate
01-02 Secretary for the Majority, Senate
02-07 Secretary for the Minority, Senate
07-08 Secretary for the Majority, Senate
15-17 Deputy Asst to the President10 filingsthrough 2021
Kareem D MurphyThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a10 filingsthrough 2011
Rich MeadePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1994-1996 Legislative Director, Congressman Jim Nussle (R-IA-01)
1997-2003 Chief of Staff, Congressman Jim Nussle (R-IA-01)
2001-2005 Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, United States House of Representatives9 filingsthrough 2019
WILLIAM FERGUSON jrThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a9 filingsthrough 2010
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2003-2004: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2004-2005: Press Secretary/Legislative Director, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2005-2007: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Rahall (WV-03)8 filingsthrough 2021
