28 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Jan 23, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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: travelers-companies-inc.
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.
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$110K 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
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5633110th CongressNondiscriminatory Use of Consumer Reports and Consumer Information Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1782110th CongressArbitration Fairness Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2449110th CongressSunshine in Litigation Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3010110th CongressArbitration Fairness Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3121110th CongressFlood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 91110th CongressHomeowners Insurance Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2041110th CongressFalse Claims Act Correction Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1309112th CongressFlood Insurance Reform Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3596111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4626111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 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.
