46 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$2.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.5M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Immigration
IMM
35 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
32 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1354113th CongressJOLT Act of 201316 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Evan M MigdailDla Piper LLP (US)26 filingsthrough 2016
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Minority Cnsl, Sbcmte. on Const & Civil Rights, H. Jud. Cmte ; ; Chief Counsel, Sbcmte. on Constitution, H. Judiciary Cmte ; ; Special Assistant to Speaker of the House ; ; Policy Director, House Majority Whip ; ; Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House ; ; Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference16 filingsthrough 2016
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack ; ; Special Assistant, Senator Connie Mack ; ; Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Connie Mack ; ; Press Secretary, Joint Economic Committee ; ; Policy Analyst, Senate Budget Committee ; ; Communications Director, Senator Mel Martinez ; ; Director, State of Florida Washington, D.C. Office ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator George LeMieux16 filingsthrough 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: starwood-hotels-resorts-worldwide-inc.
fees reported
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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.
LBR
30 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Insurance
INS
17 filings
$890K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1746112th CongressVISIT USA Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 800110th CongressEmployee Free Choice Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5741112th CongressJOLT Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3199112th CongressJOLT Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1023111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 2206110th CongressU.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
Ignacio E SanchezDla Piper LLP (US)14 filingsthrough 2012
Brenda G MeisterDla Piper LLP (US)10 filingsthrough 2011
John A MerriganDla Piper LLP (US)5 filingsthrough 2012
Lawrence E LevinsonDla Piper LLP (US)4 filingsthrough 2008
Matthew C BernsteinDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2012
Richard M GoldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Special Assit. for Environmental Affairs, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen ; ; Special Assistant to EPA Administrator Carol Browner1 filingthrough 2013
Jared M GenserDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2008
Lynn M VanburenDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
