24 filings from 2 registrants · 2012–2017 · latest filed Jan 22, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$438K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$438K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$338K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
17 filings
$345K 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 — 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.
H.R. 365114th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a notice and comment rulemaking before implementing certain policies relating to obstruction evaluation aeronautical studies, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4441114th CongressAviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 20164 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: vornado-charles-e-smith-l-p.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016
4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act2 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4623113th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a notice and comment rulemaking before implementing certain policies relating to obstruction evaluation aeronautical studies, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 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.
12 filingsthrough 2014
Warren PayneMayer Brown LLPCovered position: US Int'l Trade Comm: Trade Analyst, 2002-04; Economic Advisory, 2004-07; House Ways + Means Committee: Trade Economist, 2007-09; Sr. Economist/Trade Advisory, 2009-11; Chief Economist, 2011-12, Policy Director, 2012-15.9 filingsthrough 2017
Amanda ThayerMoffett Group, LLCCovered position: Intern, Office of Rep. Jim Cooper (unpaid)9 filingsthrough 2013
Michael Johnson KelleyMayer Brown LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steve Buyer7 filingsthrough 2015
Anthony J MoffettMayer Brown LLP7 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
