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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
22 filings
$765K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$195K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: stmicroelectronics-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2013
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act4 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 6012112th CongressTo authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide to owners of certain intellectual property rights information on, and unredacted samples and images of, semiconductor chip products suspected of being imported in violation of the rights of the owner of a registered mark or the owner of a mask work.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act4 filingsthrough 2011
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 1631111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3941111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1540113th CongressTo amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the South Sacramento County Agriculture and Habitat Lands Water Recycling Project in Sacramento County, California.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 6642112th CongressCustoms Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
NORMAN LENT iiiDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC
9 filingsthrough 2013
Stephen C SayleDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Majority Counsel, House Energy and Commerce8 filingsthrough 2013
James M BurgerDow Lohnes PLLC7 filingsthrough 2011
James M BurgerThompson Coburn LLP6 filingsthrough 2014
Kenneth D SalomonThompson Coburn LLP6 filingsthrough 2014
Haley Akins DavisDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Hon. Bill Shuster6 filingsthrough 2013
James M BurgerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC6 filingsthrough 2013
M Robert CarrDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2012
Aaron T WestonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
M Kenneth BowlerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2011
Michael ScrivnerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. Norman F. Lent, Jr.2 filingsthrough 2011
Patrick J ByrnettDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC2 filingsthrough 2011
RALPH W HARDY jrDow Lohnes PLLC1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 6 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
