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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
11 filings
$490K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$450K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3458111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4196112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the allowance for bonus depreciation for certain business assets.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.J.Res. 37112th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
DANIEL C TATE jrCapitol SolutionsCovered position: Special Assistant to President, Legislative AffairsDeputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of EnergyLegislative Director, Rep. W.J. Billy TauzinLegislative Assistant, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin12 filingsthrough 2012
Don LysterCapitol SolutionsCovered position: Projects Assistant, Office of Senator Paul S. SarbanesLegislative Aide, Office of Senator Paul S. Sarbanes9 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-national-cable-telecommunications-association.
TAX
4 filings
$170K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
2 filings
$70K 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 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3523112th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1343112th CongressTo return unused or reclaimed funds made available for broadband awards in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Treasury of the United States.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3570111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4123111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3186111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 328111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3333111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
