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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$70K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 55111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5604111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
George A RamonasThe Advocacy Group9 filingsthrough 2016
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: van-scoyoc-associates.
3 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.
through 2010
H.R. 6181111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 693111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 862111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 238111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 584111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2746111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3617111th 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.
Covered positions · 3 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
