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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
43 filings
$740K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
9 filings
$490K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 275110th CongressGlobal Online Freedom Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2775110th CongressTo amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize funding for emergency management performance grants, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
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: yahoo-inc.
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.
COM
9 filings
$490K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$410K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$370K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$370K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$120K 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.
110th Congress
SAFE Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1082110th CongressFood and Drug Administration Revitalization Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3804111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3325110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2410111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 275111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2775111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 876111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Assistant, House Republican Whip5 filingsthrough 2009
William D PhillipsRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP5 filingsthrough 2008
Jeff MackinnonRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LD and LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)5 filingsthrough 2008
Joseph V VasapoliRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Min.Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Assist. DOE4 filingsthrough 2008
Rodney HoppeRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Deputy Press Secretary, Energy and Commerce4 filingsthrough 2008
Douglas R NappiRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Banking Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
