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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
29 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$900K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1390111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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: xpo-logistics-formerly-known-as-con-way-inc.
LBR
9 filings
$640K on those filings
Retirement
RET
8 filings
$440K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
3 filings
$140K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2237112th CongressSmall Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2647112th CongressWitness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
S. 1390112th CongressTax Lien Simplification Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 981112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
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.
Venable LLP
7 filingsthrough 2009
EARL RAY BEEMAN iiiVenable LLPCovered position: Legis. Counsel, Jt. Committee on Taxation6 filingsthrough 2010
Kenneth R HoffmanVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Birch E BayhVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Leg Dir, US Rep Watkins4 filingsthrough 2016
Bart StupakVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative 1993-20114 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher E CondeluciVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, Tax & Benefits, Senate Finance Comm.4 filingsthrough 2012
Gregory M GillVenable LLPCovered position: Leg. Dir., Rep. Hoyer; Asst. Staff H. Approp. Comm3 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas H QuinnVenable LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
David MullonVenable LLPCovered position: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Staff Director, Chief Counsel, Gen. Counsel, Dep. Chief Counsel1 filingthrough 2015
Heidi H StirrupVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
