11 filings from 3 registrants · 2008 · latest filed Mar 23, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$945K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$505K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$440K
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: travel-business-roundtable.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
6 filings
$545K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$545K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$545K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$80K 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.
110th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009
H.R. 1110th CongressImplementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 1645110th CongressSTRIVE Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 1639110th CongressA bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
S. 1644110th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 4110th CongressImproving America's Security 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.
Melissa GongTravel Business RoundtableCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2008
Paul BrownBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
