29 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 17, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
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.
Health Issues
HCR
27 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$360K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2499110th CongressMedicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 20074 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB30 filingsthrough 2016
James SmithAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Peter Deutsch8 filingsthrough 2010
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter5 filingsthrough 2014
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel for U.S. Rep. Michael Castle
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: siemens-corporations.
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$150K 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.
5 filingsthrough 2014
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Financial Director, Senator Joe Lieberman5 filingsthrough 2013
David A MetznerAcg Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2008
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen3 filingsthrough 2016
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2016
