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-chemical-society-acs.
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.
55 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
41 filings
$3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
37 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
28 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
25 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
11 filings
$400K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
10 filings
$890K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
9 filings
$810K 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. 880114th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 771114th CongressManufacturing Universities Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Ryan DavisonAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)
29 filingsthrough 2018
Kathryn VeronaAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)16 filingsthrough 2014
Heath WeemsAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)14 filingsthrough 2026
Connor Garvey-DorheimAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)9 filingsthrough 2025
Karen GarciaAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)9 filingsthrough 2019
JAMES BROWN iiiAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)9 filingsthrough 2010
Lori BrownAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)8 filingsthrough 2022
Caroline Trupp-GilAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)7 filingsthrough 2020
Katelynn M. EckertAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)5 filingsthrough 2016
May Barclay SatterfieldAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)5 filingsthrough 2009
Raymond J GarantAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)2 filingsthrough 2008
Adam SchmidtAmerican Chemical Society (Acs)2 filingsthrough 2008
