Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Watco Companies, LLC
Wisconsin
39 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2022 · latest filed Oct 18, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$270K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$270K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$210K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$50K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 720 115th CongressLawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- William B Broydrick Broydrick & Associates13 filingsthrough 2018
- Ed Mckechnie Mckechnie & CompanyCovered position: Consultant8 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: watco-companies-llc.