68 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 23, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$572K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$520K
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.
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: sunlight-foundation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
2 filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$27K 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.
112th Congress
Lobbyist Disclosure Enhancement Act
8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 231110th CongressTo authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Nebraska.8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4397113th CongressTo amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require all political committees to notify the Federal Election Commission within 48 hours of receiving cumulative contributions of $1,000 or more from any contributor during a calendar year, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2207113th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require all political committees to notify the Federal Election Commission within 48 hours of receiving cumulative contributions of $1,000 or more from any contributor during a calendar year, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.Res. 554111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1380113th CongressAccess to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4858111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4983111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 195113th CongressEthics in Foreign Lobbying Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Sean VitkaSunlight Foundation
7 filingsthrough 2015
Ellen S MillerSunlight Foundation6 filingsthrough 2008
Lisa RosenbergRosenberg Policy AssociatesCovered position: Counsel, Senate PSI, LA Senator John Kerry4 filingsthrough 2014
