49 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2024 · latest filed Dec 23, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$930K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$930K
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.
Manufacturing
MAN
45 filings
$890K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
23 filings
$460K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 197115th CongressTo authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7011116th CongressPandemic Risk Insurance Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Paul M KanitraLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Field Director, U.S. House of Representatives31 filingsthrough 2019
Justin Maxwell PerkinsLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Rules and Administration 08-1016 filingsthrough 2021
WILLIAM NILE ELAM ivLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. House of Representatives13 filingsthrough 2015
Jacob KohnLOBBYIT.COM12 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 49 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: the-brick-industry-association.
20 filings
$400K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
16 filings
$320K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$10K 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.
through 2023
Michael Blake William BezrukiLOBBYIT.COM11 filingsthrough 2023
ANDREW JAMES SCHINSKI esqLOBBYIT.COM10 filingsthrough 2023
Karl StarkLOBBYIT.COM9 filingsthrough 2024
Justin Ryan LewisLOBBYIT.COM6 filingsthrough 2021
Brandon FarrisLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Legislative Assistant, House Committee on Agriculture6 filingsthrough 2016
Jonathan TaylorLOBBYIT.COM5 filingsthrough 2024
Patrick CavanaghLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Legislative Staff - Rep. Mike Doyle 01-09; Constituent Staff - Sen/Rep Debbie Stabenow 99-01; Office/Legislative Staff - Rep. Tim Holden 96-993 filingsthrough 2017
Keith Barclay NelsonLOBBYIT.COM3 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 5 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
