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: american-apparel-footwear-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.
TRD
52 filings
$9.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
47 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
26 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
22 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
22 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
21 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
17 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$400K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$400K 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.
117th Congress
Earth Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 746117th CongressTrade Security Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 936117th CongressINFORM Consumers Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1008116th CongressTrade Security Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1376116th CongressCambodia Trade Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1452116th CongressImport Tax Relief Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1710116th CongressAutomotive Jobs Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 526116th CongressCambodia Democracy Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 723116th CongressGlobal Trade Accountability Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 764116th CongressUnited States Reciprocal Trade Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 287116th CongressBicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Jennifer Scoggins HanksAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association18 filingsthrough 2026
Christina MitropoulosAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association18 filingsthrough 2021
