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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$340K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1834112th CongressFreedom to Invest Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
S. 1671112th CongressForeign Earnings Reinvestment Act1 filingthrough 2012
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.
Elizabeth GreerCauthen Forbes & Williams6 filingsthrough 2012
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC5 filingsthrough 2012
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC5 filingsthrough 2012
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Small Business ; ; LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: win-america-campaign.
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.
5 filingsthrough 2012
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln5 filingsthrough 2012
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee ; ; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation5 filingsthrough 2012
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Dave Camp ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith5 filingsthrough 2012
Jerry DriscollCauthen Forbes & Williams2 filingsthrough 2012
