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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$320K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$60K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3098110th CongressAlternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 2008
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: alticor.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
3 filings
through 2008
S. 3125110th CongressEnergy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 132112th CongressCreate Jobs by Expanding the R&D Tax Credit Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 134112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7060110th CongressRenewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 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.
