Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Vinyl Institute, Inc.
District of Columbia
31 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
31 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
31 filings
$1.9M 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Eduardo Ivan Zapien Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Chief of Staff to US Senator Robert Menendez 2003-2008; National Outreach Director for the House Democratic Caucus 2002-200332 filingsthrough 2026
- Kathleen M Mcauliffe Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Counsel, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (1995-2000)7 filingsthrough 2020
- Kevin Wysocki Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: SA, LC, LA, Senior LA, Rep. Bachmann, 2012-2015; Senior LA, Rep. Emmer, 2015-2017; Professional Staff, Rep. Barr, 2017-2019; Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee, 2017-20194 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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-vinyl-institute-inc.