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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$820K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
6 filings
$190K 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. 1696115th CongressS Corporation Modernization Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
S. 711115th CongressS Corporation Modernization Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 93-98 Leg. Asst., Office of Director, Sen. Hatch ; ; 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Cmte on Small Business15 filingsthrough 2017
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 85-94 LA/LC to Senator George Mitchell9 filingsthrough 2016
WILLIAM H GRAY iiiGray Global Advisors, LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress6 filingsthrough 2011
Adam HuftalenGray Global Advisors, LLC Legislative Corres Foreign Affairs, Tom Lantos
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2018
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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-irvine-company.
$190K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 5745114th CongressPutting Main Street FIRST Act1 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 5754114th CongressS Corporation Modernization 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.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2011
Thomas G LoefflerGray Global Advisors, LLC6 filingsthrough 2011
Hans C RickhoffGray Global Advisors, LLC6 filingsthrough 2011
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2015
Justin GrayGray Global Advisors, LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
