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.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
21 filings
$560K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$880K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2577112th CongressSAFE Data Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1151112th CongressPersonal Data Privacy and Security Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
Jack QuinnQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Counsel Pres Clinton, CoS Vice Pres Gore31 filingsthrough 2017
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen30 filingsthrough 2017
Drew K ColeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Intern, Sen. Don Nickles25 filingsthrough 2017
John Patrick FeeheryQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2017
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
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: sony-corp-of-america.
TRU
4 filings
$340K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$260K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$60K 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.
112th Congress
Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2045110th CongressPLAY Every Day Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5140110th CongressEconomic Stimulus Act of 20081 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.
Michael DiromaQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)14 filingsthrough 2017
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)10 filingsthrough 2011
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats10 filingsthrough 2011
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll9 filingsthrough 2012
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)9 filingsthrough 2010
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)4 filingsthrough 2009
Jeffrey ConnaughtonQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsst to Chmn SenJudCom,SpcAsst to WHCoun4 filingsthrough 2008
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
