20 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Mar 29, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$445K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$445K
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.
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: western-business-roundtable.
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.
16 filings
$325K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
10 filings
$140K on those filings
Animals
ANI
6 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
2 filings
$20K 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.
112th Congress
RCCRA Act of 2011
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1581112th CongressWilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2273112th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2401112th CongressTransparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1061112th CongressGovernment Litigation Savings Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1097112th CongressNew START Treaty Implementation Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1113112th CongressCritical Minerals Policy Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 629112th CongressHydropower Improvement Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 631112th CongressHydropower Renewable Energy Development Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 980111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 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.
Policy Communicatons, Inc.
Covered position: U.S. House of Representatives
4 filingsthrough 2008
Britt WeygandtPolicy Communicatons, Inc.Covered position: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
