15 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2022 · latest filed Feb 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$860K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$860K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$860K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
15 filings
$860K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 490117th CongressUnemployment Insurance Technology Modernization Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee17 filingsthrough 2022
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip17 filingsthrough 2022
Whitaker L AskewAvoq, LLC
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: softbank.
Softbank — lobbying record — Receipts Report
13 filings
$740K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$80K 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.
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.
17 filingsthrough 2022
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.17 filingsthrough 2022
