20 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 16, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$530K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$530K
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.
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: tiaa-cref.
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.
RET
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
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.
110th Congress
Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3185110th Congress401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 970110th CongressIran Counter-Proliferation Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6020112th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3301112th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2271110th CongressSudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
5 filings
through 2009
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Robert CogornoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Communications, Sen. Adams5 filingsthrough 2009
