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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
60 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$700K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6020113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3301113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 6020112th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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: trimble-navigation-ltd.
BUD
8 filings
$730K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$280K 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.
112th Congress
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2013
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20211 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2219112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 1253112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
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.
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
10 filingsthrough 2013
Paul Gerard ScoleseAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg Dir and Admin Asst to Rep Paxon, 1990-9710 filingsthrough 2013
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: pol aide, Rep Clayton, Oct 97-Jan 989 filingsthrough 2013
