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
50 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$640K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness 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: streamlined-sales-tax-governing-board-inc.
TRD
1 filing
$30K 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.
114th Congress
Remote Transactions Parity Act of 2015
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6824115th CongressOnline Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3725115th CongressOnline Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
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.
Covered position: LA,LD & Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-PA
2 filingsthrough 2014
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst. to the President & House Liaison ; ; Special Asst. to the President for Legis. Affairs ; ; Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB ; ; Special Asst. to Undersecretary, Dept. of Energy ; ; Policy Adv. to Chmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm.2 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
