10 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2016 · latest filed Dec 30, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$395K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$395K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$390K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
9 filings
$390K 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. 2822114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1645114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
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-lake-view-cemetery-foundation.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the reproductive treatment provided to certain disabled veterans.
2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5538114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3068114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 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:
5 filingsthrough 2016
Lauren Henry CowlesMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: Appropriations Legislative Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor ; ; ProfessionalStaffMember,SenateHomelandSecurity&GovtAffsComm ; ; Legislative Correspondent/Staff Asst, Senator Mark Pryor1 filingthrough 2014
Michael Robert PaskoMcdonald Hopkins Government Strategies, LLCCovered position: LegAsst/LegCorrespondent/StaffAsst, Congressman Aaron Schock ; ; Exec Asst to the Chairman, Exec Office of the President, CEQ ; ; Student Assistant, Executive Office of the President, CEQ1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
