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.
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: university-of-pittsburg-medical-center-a-k-a-upmc.
4 filings
$190K 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.
2 filings
through 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2219112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 981112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 6523111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 2787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3800111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Ervin Graves Strategy Group, LLC
4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
