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: wachovia-corporation.
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.
FIN
11 filings
$380K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
8 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
8 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$220K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$220K on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
2 filings
$925K on those filings
Torts
TOR
2 filings
$890K 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.
110th Congress
Home Ownership Preservation and Protection Act of 2007
9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2288110th CongressSmall Business Lending Oversight and Program Performance Improvement Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
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 position:
7 filingsthrough 2008
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate5 filingsthrough 2009
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Charles M BrainCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Asst. to the President, Dp.Chief Staff W&M Cmte5 filingsthrough 2009
