Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 7 clients
205 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 12 clients
187 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Timothy P HechtCovered position: Deputy Counselor and Special Assistant to the Secretary of ; ; Commerce [1989-1991]; Deputy Political Director, The White ; ; House [1992-1993].488 filings22 clients · through 2026
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrCovered position: Minority Counsel, House Committee on Ways & Means [1995-1997]488 filings22 clients · through 2026
William H Hecht320 filings21 clients · through 2017
Thomas Paul LathamCovered position: Member of Congress, 1995 - 2015, R-Iowa220 filings10 clients · through 2026
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
British American Tobacco P.L.C.
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2017
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 494 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: hecht-latham-spencer-associates-inc-formerly-known-as-hecht-spencer-assoc.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $20.5M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 5 clients
138 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 4 clients
89 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 3 clients
87 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS · 5 clients
87 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 4 clients
83 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
70 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 5 clients
66 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 2 clients
60 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
58 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB · 1 client
56 filings
$2.2M 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 money 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.
Stuart Spencer
39 filings10 clients · through 2015
Walter D Huddleston35 filings8 clients · through 2011
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
