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
37 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$130K 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 — 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.
S. 2628110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 44111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
Geoffrey PaulInteger, LLC18 filingsthrough 2026
Sara BarbaInteger, LLCCovered position: Intern for Rep. Mike Coffman18 filingsthrough 2026
Sandra SwirskiInteger, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel for Sen. Al Simpson and Sen. John Danforth18 filingsthrough 2026
Michael MchughUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Gordon Smith15 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: world-gold-council.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Anne UrbanUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Tax Advisor, Sen. Bob Kerry15 filingsthrough 2022
Sandra SwirskiUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel for Sen. Al Simpson and Sen. John Danforth15 filingsthrough 2022
Sara BarbaUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern for Rep. Mike Coffman15 filingsthrough 2022
Don Robert LonganoPricewaterhousecoopers6 filingsthrough 2009
Scott MccandlessPricewaterhousecoopers6 filingsthrough 2009
