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
5 filings
$260K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$260K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2021
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: viaphoton.
117th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20211 filingthrough 2022
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 3023117th CongressA bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2021
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.1 filingthrough 2021
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.
Mark EpleyArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor & General Counsel, Office of the Speaker (2015-19); Committee General Counsel & Staff Director, Oversight subcommittee, House Ways and Means (12-15); Staff Director, Oversight subcommittee, House Financial Services (11-12)
5 filingsthrough 2021
Taylor HolmesArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
JAMES VICKERS COURTNEY jrArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Byrne (2019)4 filingsthrough 2022
