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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Insurance
INS
13 filings
$780K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3424111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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: zurich-financial-service-group.
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$60K 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.
1 filing
through 2014
S. 2244113th CongressTerrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 1091112th CongressA bill to amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to include a system for indeterminate loss insurance claims, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3121110th CongressFlood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3200110th CongressNational Insurance Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3355110th CongressHomeowners' Defense Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 228110th CongressSmall Business Child Care Act1 filingthrough 2008
S. 2310110th CongressHomeowners' Defense Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 40110th CongressNational Insurance Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 618110th CongressInsurance Industry Competition Act of 20071 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.
19 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Warren IsakowitzFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Press Secretary for Congressman Gilmor19 filingsthrough 2014
Kirsten ChadwickFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs19 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB10 filingsthrough 2014
William PiperFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell10 filingsthrough 2014
