30 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
30 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director and Counsel, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Press Secretary, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Press Secretary, Former Rep. Tom Bliley (R-VA)32 filingsthrough 2020
Debra DixonTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Chief of staff to Rep. Xavier Becerra, legislative director to Rep. Becerra, legislative counsel to Rep. Becerra, chief of staff, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, Immigration Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice18 filingsthrough 2020
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: sprint-corporation-formerly-sprint.
CSP
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$770K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
15 filings
$750K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
15 filings
$750K 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.
S. 2604114th CongressDigital Security Commission Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3540113th CongressDemand Letter Transparency Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 845113th CongressSaving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
S. 1612113th CongressPatent Litigation Integrity Act of 20131 filingthrough 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.
Sarah Dumont-MerchakTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Senate Banking Committee professional staff member, former Rep. Bill McCollum, senior banking associate, former Rep. Bill Barr, deputy legislative director, House Banking and Financial Service Committee staff member12 filingsthrough 2018
Sharon RingleyTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Former Rep. Rick Boucher8 filingsthrough 2014
