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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
35 filings
$280K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$280K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
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: spirit-airlines-inc.
HOM
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
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.
114th Congress
Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2015
6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4156113th CongressTransparent Airfares Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
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.
7 filingsthrough 2013
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl5 filingsthrough 2016
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Asst., Special Asst., Dep. Press Secretary, Sen. Connie Mac; Press Sec., Joint Econ. Cmte.; Policy Analyst, Sen. Budget Cmte.; Communications Dir., Sen. Mel Martinez; Dir., State Office Sen. George Lemieux; Chief of Staff, Sen. George Lemieux4 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew BanfieldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Tim Kaine2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
