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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
40 filings
$600K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
37 filings
$340K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5658115th CongressWorkplace Choice and Flexibility for Individuals with Disabilities Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5658116th CongressCrime Victims’ Rights Act of 20201 filingthrough 2019
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.
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: accses.
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.
19 filings
$160K on those filings
Insurance
INS
9 filings
$160K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
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.
WILLIAM STEVE SOUTHERLAND iiCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: William Steve Southerland, II served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.10 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel MauerPorter Group, LLCCovered position: Senate Staff10 filingsthrough 2017
JON C PORTER srPorter Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress10 filingsthrough 2017
