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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
8 filings
$520K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1194111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3673111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steve GlazePalmetto GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Senator David Pryor25 filingsthrough 2014
John WinburnPalmetto Group25 filingsthrough 2014
James DennisPalmetto GroupCovered position: Counsel Sen Robb & Bingaman, IRS Commission25 filingsthrough 2014
David RuddPalmetto GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff for Senator Hollings6 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: tyco-international-plc-f-k-a-tyco-international.
ENG
4 filings
$260K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$60K 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.
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2947111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5470111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5304112th CongressTo extend the temporary reduction of duty on liquid-filled glass bulbs designed for sprinkler systems and other release devices.1 filingthrough 2012
S. 3059111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Michael PruckerPalmetto GroupCovered position: Staff for Cong. Neal and Cong. Kennelly4 filingsthrough 2009
Ed JenkinsPalmetto GroupCovered position: Former Member of Congress - Georgia4 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
