68 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 19, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$17M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$15.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
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: us-airways.
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.
FUE
17 filings
$12.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$448K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$3.7M 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3539110th CongressAirport and Airway Trust Fund Financing Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 36111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1775113th CongressSaracini Aviation Safety Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3650113th CongressSilent Skies Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1495113th CongressSaracini Aviation Safety Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 967111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2698110th CongressFederal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 20076 filingsthrough 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.
through 2014
Ca HowlettUS Airways9 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey R. LovengSbl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, US House of Representatives8 filingsthrough 2014
Jeffrey R LovengVandor Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Shuster8 filingsthrough 2013
Henry Chad BradleySbl Strategies, LLCCovered position: D. Chief of Staff, US Senate7 filingsthrough 2014
Julia TorreyUS Airways6 filingsthrough 2010
Victoria BassettiPoligentsia1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 4 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
