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.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
50 filings
$990K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
9 filings
$80K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3288112th CongressSafeguarding United States Satellite Leadership and Security Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3211112th CongressSafeguarding United States Satellite Leadership and Security Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
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: accelerate-colorado.
DIS
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$10K 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.
113th Congress
Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act
2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2494113th CongressNatural Gas Export Promotion Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Alex CataneseThe Normandy Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2018
