19 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2011 · latest filed Oct 3, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$76K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$30K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$46K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$46K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
2 filings
$30K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steven Lane McclainTrut for Architectural EasementsCovered position: President5 filingsthrough 2010
EARL RAY BEEMAN iiiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation4 filingsthrough 2009
Victoria Cangelosi MccormickTrut for Architectural EasementsCovered position: Vice President2 filingsthrough 2010
Chris GiblinOgrCovered position: COS,Cong.Carter;LD,Cong.Norwood;LA,Fields
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: trust-for-architectural-easements.
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
2 filingsthrough 2009
Julie DammannOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Senator Bond2 filingsthrough 2009
Stewart HallOgrCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby2 filingsthrough 2009
John GreenOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/ Leg Aide, Sen Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2009
