Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Seattle Times
Washington
47 filings from 2 registrants · 2016–2023 · latest filed Jul 21, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
33 filings
$616K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$160K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Jeff Bjornstad Washington2 AdvocatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Patty Murray; Chief of Staff Rep. Rick Larsen; Chief of Staff Rep. Adam Smith25 filingsthrough 2023
- Michael P Kreps Groom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Senior Counsel to Senate HELP21 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 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-seattle-times.