Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND · 4 clients
91 filings
$1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 12 clients
80 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Steven PruittCovered position: Former Staff Director, House Committee on the Budget506 filings47 clients · through 2019
JC WATTS jrCovered position: Former Member of Congress458 filings45 clients · through 2020
Lauren Saper120 filings13 clients · through 2016
Jaimon Maurice JacksonCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick70 filings16 clients · through 2012
Elroy Sailor
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Nigeria
1 filing
through 2015
Sap Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2008
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 556 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: j-c-watts-companies.
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 $11.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
FIN · 4 clients
63 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 3 clients
43 filings
$608K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 5 clients
40 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Education
EDU · 4 clients
35 filings
$180K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 3 clients
34 filings
$1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 3 clients
27 filings
$568K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 4 clients
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
24 filings
Banking
BAN · 4 clients
19 filings
$904K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
19 filings
$264K 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.
67 filings14 clients · through 2016
Tripp BairdCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Mel Martinez59 filings17 clients · through 2010
Doug ThomasCovered position: Staff Director, House Small Business Committee48 filings12 clients · through 2009
STEPHEN WASKIEWICZ iiCovered position: N/A38 filings14 clients · through 2010
Benjamin Siegrist32 filings10 clients · through 2011
Ronald Vernie DellumsCovered position: Former Member of Congress31 filings7 clients · through 2016
Jon VandenheuvelCovered position: Executive Director, House GOP Conference25 filings10 clients · through 2008
Angela Sailor9 filings2 clients · through 2008
Holly Pitt Young8 filings2 clients · through 2009
David Crane6 filings5 clients · through 2011
Paul Welday5 filings3 clients · through 2012
Samuel Iwu1 filing1 client · through 2015
Covered positions · 8 of 16 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.
