62 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 17, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$5.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.3M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$430K
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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2745110th CongressA bill to extend agricultural programs beyond March 15, 2008, to suspend permanent price support authorities beyond that date, and for other purposes.
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: sodexo-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.
AGR
25 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
22 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$555K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$544K on those filings
Retirement
RET
6 filings
$544K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Constitution
CON
3 filings
$730K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$315K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$590K 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.
H.Con.Res. 312111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5175111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Charles Michael ShafferTrammell and Company5 filingsthrough 2011
Jeff TrammellTrammell and Company5 filingsthrough 2011
Joel FreedmanGephardt Group Government Affairs5 filingsthrough 2011
