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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 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.
H.R. 4105113th CongressMaritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1509113th CongressMaritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century5 filingsthrough 2014
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: washington-council-on-international-trade-wcit.
114th Congress
Horse Protection Amendments Act of 2015
2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1509114th CongressTreat and Reduce Obesity Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Jason Benjamin Van PeltCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior LA, LA, Staff Asst: Cong. Ed Whitfield1 filingthrough 2017
Chris J MillerCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: CoS Rep. Reichert (R-WA), Senior LA Rep. Miller (R-CA), Staff Asst. Sen. Smith (R-OR)1 filingthrough 2017
Shay Michael HancockCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: MLA Sen. Murray (D-WA), LA Rep Smith (D-WA)1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 18 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
