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.
H.R. 4040112th CongressTo provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Jack Nicklaus in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf.5 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: sony-electronics-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.
WAS
17 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
16 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
16 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
16 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
15 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
14 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
14 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$2.2M 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
Coastal State Climate Change Planning Act
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4315112th CongressVeterans Mental Health Accessibility Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4316112th CongressTo amend chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 to include Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the definition of State for the purposes of the trade adjustment assistance for workers program.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4317112th CongressIranian Energy Sector and Proliferation Sanctions Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4524112th CongressTo extend the temporary reduction of duty on yarn of carded cashmere 19.35 metric yarn count or higher.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4886112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2-Phenylphenol.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4887112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on 2-amino-5-cyano-N,3-dimethylbenzamide.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5450112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Methane Sulfonyl Chloride.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4040111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4314111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4315111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4316111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 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.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Calvin P JohnsonMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Stephen M RyanMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Organized Crime.4 filingsthrough 2008
William F WeldMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Boston, Springfield.4 filingsthrough 2008
James E DatriMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Leg Corr, Rep Sander Levin.4 filingsthrough 2008
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dep. Staff Director/Gen. Counsel, US Senate3 filingsthrough 2009
