31 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 25, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$930K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$930K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$930K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
31 filings
$930K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
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: southwire-co.
ENG
27 filings
$810K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$750K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$120K 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.
113th Congress
Electricity Security and Affordability Act
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2347111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2348111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 890111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
