Sweater Coalition — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Sweater Coalition
District of Columbia
8 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2011 · latest filed Dec 16, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$230K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$230K
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$230K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$180K 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
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 2578111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2579111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2580111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2581111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filings
Andrew SametSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Moynihan ; ; Deputy Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor1 filing
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: sweater-coalition.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2010
S. 2582111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2583111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2584111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2587111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2588111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2589111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2578112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of more than 80mm diameter.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2579112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on insulated food or beverage bags with outer surface of man made fiber, with removable inner liner of hard plastic, certified by the importer as containing over 40 percent by weight of recycled plastics, exceeding 300 mm in length.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2580112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on insulated food or beverage bags with outer surface of man made fiber, with removable inner liner of hard plastic, certified by the importer as containing over 40 percent by weight of recycled plastics, not to exceed 300 mm in length.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2581112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain plastic device book style covers.2 filingsthrough 2011
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.
through 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
