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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-cable-association-inc-dba-acaconnects.
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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.
TAX
34 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
31 filings
$5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
25 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
22 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
18 filings
$3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
16 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
15 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
14 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
13 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$1.8M 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.
H.R. 1049117th CongressTo require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an interagency strike force to increase prioritization by the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture by senior management of the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture, or an organizational unit of reviews for communications use authorizations.16 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1141117th CongressBroadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act16 filingsthrough 2022
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.
