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.
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
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-association-of-state-colleges-and-universities.
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.
8 filings
$146K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$146K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$114K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$26K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$12K 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.
113th Congress
Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2013
4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2241112th CongressGI Bill Consumer Awareness Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1003113th CongressComprehensive Student Loan Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1094113th CongressStrengthening America's Schools Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1238113th CongressKeep Student Loans Affordable Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1334113th CongressBipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 953113th CongressStudent Loan Affordability Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4057112th CongressImproving Transparency of Education Opportunities for Veterans Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2179112th CongressMilitary and Veterans Educational Reform Act of 20123 filingsthrough 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.
