Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Somerset Development Corporation (Formerly Known as Somerset County Business PA)
New Jersey
25 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 27, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$420K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$420K
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.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
19 filings
$380K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 3261 110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 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.
- Robert Zucker Winning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LD, Rep. Rothman; LA,Rep. Evans (IL); Sen. Lautenberg28 filingsthrough 2016
- Michael A Merola Winning Strategies Washington20 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: somerset-development-corporation-formerly-known-as-somerset-county-business-pa.