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: akin-gump-strauss-hauer-feld-llp.
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.
MMM
5 filings
$520K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$203K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Insurance
INS
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
1 filing
$45K 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.
110th Congress
Patent Reform Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2839112th CongressPiracy Suppression Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
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.
