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: taser-international.
$140K
fees reported
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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.
7 filings
$260K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$140K 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.
2 filings
through 2010
S. 3280111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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 2015
Joseph BartonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Mem Office (Boehner)5 filingsthrough 2015
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Mem Office (Rogers); LA House Mem Office (Bartlett); LC & CD House Mem Office (Packard)5 filingsthrough 2015
Timothy Farrell HanneganWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US General Accounting Office5 filingsthrough 2012
Robert WalkerWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2010
Malcolm GraceWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US House of Representatives2 filingsthrough 2012
Thomas BlankWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: TSA/DHS & DOT; US House; US AID2 filingsthrough 2008
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2014
Dale W SnapeWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
