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: universities-space-research-association.
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.
43 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
16 filings
$670K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
13 filings
$630K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$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.
113th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2039114th CongressNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act for 2016 and 20171 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
13 filings
through 2015
Hannibal Williams Ii KemererSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan2005-Dec2010 Counsel Senate Judiciary Committee10 filingsthrough 2018
Dana WeekesSquire Patton Boggs9 filingsthrough 2015
Amy DavenportSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: June-Aug 2009: Intern, Sen. George Voinovich9 filingsthrough 2015
David LesstrangSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.4 filingsthrough 2022
Clark Kent ErvinSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1991, Co-Director of Policy, White House Office of National Service; 2001-2002, Inspector General, State Department; 2003-2004, Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security1 filingthrough 2022
John BreauxSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2014
Matthew FordSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2008
Ingrid Magean BellSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
