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: wal-mart-stores-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.
FIN
19 filings
$820K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
16 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
16 filings
$950K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
15 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$385K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
10 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
9 filings
$650K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
5 filings
$310K 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.
S. 2045110th CongressCPSC Reform Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2695111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1212111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1452112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
Keith SmithPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A21 filingsthrough 2015
Sue SheridanSheridan Energy & Environmental Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2011
Jennifer Ann MulvenySandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.Covered position: Staff Assistant House Ways and Means (Trade)5 filingsthrough 2010
Sudafi HenryThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Major Owens, Legislative Director for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Counsel & Sr. Policy Advisor for Rep. Steny Hoyer; Asst and Dir. of Legislative Affairs for VP Joe Biden4 filingsthrough 2016
Robert HolifieldAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcmte on Int'l TradeDeputy Chief of Staff, CFTC Chairman Gary GenslerDirector of External Affairs, CFTC Acting Chair M. DunnSenior Advisor, CFTC Commissioner Bart ChiltonAssocoiate Director, Democratic Steering & Outreach CmteOffice of Majority Leader Harry ReidSenior Policy Advisor, Senator Blanche Lincoln4 filingsthrough 2013
Blanche LincolnAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator and Congresswoman - Arkansas4 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 30 of 54 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
