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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$95K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$90K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
David LeiterMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, U. S. Senator John KerryLegislative Assistant, U. S. Senator Wendell Ford10 filingsthrough 2009
Jeremy RabinovitzMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Carolyn MaloneyChief of Staff, Rep Walter CappsChief of Staff, Rep Lois Capps
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: z-gen.
CPT
4 filings
$45K 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
Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008
6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1403110th CongressFarm-to-Fuel Investment Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2829110th CongressA bill to make technical corrections to section 1244 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which provides special immigrant status for certain Iraqis, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1158111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 306111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2886110th CongressAlternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
3 filingsthrough 2008
Robert Neal MartinMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U. S. Senator Max Cleland3 filingsthrough 2008
Patrick D MaraMl Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
