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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
John LundyCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: COS for Senator Trent Lott 1991-199710 filingsthrough 2012
Spence FlatgardCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: LD for Cong Roger Wicker10 filingsthrough 2012
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: smartsynch-inc.
fees reported
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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.
4 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.
10 filingsthrough 2012
Rhod ShawAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)7 filingsthrough 2010
Lawrence SpiveyAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Cmte7 filingsthrough 2010
Mary Martha HensonCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: LD for Congressmanb Chip Pickering3 filingsthrough 2010
Jason SchendleAlpine Group Partners, LLC.1 filingthrough 2009
Ansley ErdelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
