21 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$790K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$790K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: air-transport-association.
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.
AVI
10 filings
$390K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$110K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1356110th CongressNext Generation Air Transportation System Financing Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2215110th CongressTo provide a reduction in the aggregate greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy consumed by vehicles and aircraft, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2698110th CongressFederal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3236110th CongressEnergy Efficiency Improvement Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1337111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 594111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 624111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 831111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 912111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
