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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$130K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
10 filings
$120K on those filings
Banking
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2834110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP12 filingsthrough 2011
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Admin. Asst/Chief of Staff - Sen. Lloyd Bentsen12 filingsthrough 2011
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: vestar-capital.
BAN
5 filings
$50K 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.
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 344111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th 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.
