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.
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$618K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$698K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1813113th CongressEarthquake Insurance Affordability Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 487113th CongressDriver Fatigue Prevention Act8 filingsthrough 2014
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-ickes-enright-group-inc-o-b-o-amalgamated-transit-union-afl-cio.
TAX
2 filings
$75K 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.
113th Congress
Partnership to Build America Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1139116th CongressTransit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 413114th CongressPartnership to Build America Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1813114th CongressA bill to establish a bus state of good repair program.4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1977112th CongressDriver Fatigue Prevention Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1957113th CongressPartnership to Build America Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Justin MccarthyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Leg. Affairs5 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew MckechnieTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Bipartisan Medical Technology Caucus5 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Carper4 filingsthrough 2014
Sheila MurphyTiber Creek Group1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
