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: verisign-inc.
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.
SCI
41 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
23 filings
$4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
11 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$710K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 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.
114th Congress
Cyber Threat Sharing Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2015
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2015
S. 773111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1224115th CongressNIST Cybersecurity Framework, Assessment, and Auditing Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1612113th CongressPatent Litigation Integrity Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1693115th CongressStop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1353113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20155 filingsthrough 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.
Shannon J TewsVerisign, Inc.Covered position: Vice President, Global Public Policy21 filingsthrough 2012
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman12 filingsthrough 2016
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman12 filingsthrough 2016
Dennis PotterHolland & Knight LLP11 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman11 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Titles11 filingsthrough 2012
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Titles11 filingsthrough 2012
