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
18 filings
$630K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
9 filings
$160K 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.
H.R. 2708113th CongressUnited States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trade cnsl, S Fin Comm, Feb 03-Jan 05; leg asst to SenLincoln, Jun 01-Feb 0326 filingsthrough 2016
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: tariff-action-coalition.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2015
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2708114th CongressTo direct the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a study on cyber attack standards of measurement.2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4923114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
S. 2794114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20161 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.
through 2012
Ryan EllisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld6 filingsthrough 2015
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff dir, H Ways & Means Subcomm on Sel Rev Measures, Mar 01-Mar 04; staff, H Ways & Means Subcom on Oversight, Jun 98-Mar 015 filingsthrough 2016
Greg MastelAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: advsr, then CoS to Sen Baucus, 1989-954 filingsthrough 2010
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: 1996; leg aide to Sen Coverdell, 1993-942 filingsthrough 2014
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 002 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
