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.
Small Business
SMB
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
5 filings
$30K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Amal Ujjval DaveArentfox Schiff LLP13 filingsthrough 2021
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank (1999-2003); Leg. Director and Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Arlen Specter (1994-1998)8 filingsthrough 2021
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: silver-diner-inc.
H.R. 8265116th CongressTo amend the Small Business Act and the CARES Act to establish a program for second draw loans and make other modifications to the paycheck protection program, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3814116th CongressRESTART Act2 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4012116th CongressRESTAURANTS Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
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.
3 filings
through 2020
David HankeArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: PSM, SSCI (2017-2019); Counsel, Senate Maj. Whip (2015-2017); Counsel, Senate Min. Whip (2013-2014); Counsel, Sen. Cornyn (2007-2012); LA, Rep. Fortenberry (2007); Fellow, HIRC (2003); Law Clerk, House Ways & Means (2001); Staff Asst., CHA (2000)2 filingsthrough 2020
Philip EnglishArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative (1995 - 2009)1 filingthrough 2020
Oliver Spurgeon IiiArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Hank Johnson (2009-2015); Staff Assistant, Rep. Hank Johnson (2007-2009)1 filingthrough 2020
