78 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 22, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$3.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.8M
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.
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter41 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy39 filingsthrough 2018
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce.33 filingsthrough 2018
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLP Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson
The filings
The 20 most recent of 78 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: warner-media.
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.
MIA
39 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
12 filings
$570K on those filings
Postal
POS
11 filings
$530K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$370K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$80K 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.
115th Congress
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2102110th CongressFree Flow of Information Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 364114th CongressSTAGE Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5793112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the election to treat the cost of qualified film and television productions as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3190111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2886110th CongressAlternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3125110th CongressEnergy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2450115th CongressFILM Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1469115th CongressLIFTT Act2 filingsthrough 2017
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:
25 filingsthrough 2016
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LA, Rep. Pat Toomey15 filingsthrough 2014
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT14 filingsthrough 2012
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub14 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury14 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.13 filingsthrough 2012
Melissa MuellerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Doggett; Leg Counsel Sen. Reid12 filingsthrough 2016
Joshua F HurvitzAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner8 filingsthrough 2010
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle7 filingsthrough 2015
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Director for Leg. Affairs at OMB5 filingsthrough 2009
Karen A StoneAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Sr. LA, LA, LC, Staff Asst - Rep. Steve Israel4 filingsthrough 2012
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman4 filingsthrough 2010
James DennisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen Robb - Counsel, Sen Bingaman4 filingsthrough 2008
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Dir/Gen Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee3 filingsthrough 2016
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 19 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
