Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Silver Institute
District of Columbia
4 filings from 1 registrant · 2008 · latest filed Apr 14, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$0
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
Minting/Money/Gold Standard
MON
1 filing
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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2883 110th CongressFair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act1 filingthrough 2008
- S. 1546 110th CongressFair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act1 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Paul W Bateman Ksg LLC, DBA Klein and Saks Group4 filingsthrough 2008
- Michael P Dirienzo Ksg LLC, DBA Klein and Saks Group4 filingsthrough 2008
- George Frederic Fenton Jr Ksg LLC, DBA Klein and Saks Group3 filingsthrough 2008
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: silver-institute.