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-civil-liberties-union.
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.
CON
22 filings
$710K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
15 filings
$515K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
9 filings
$290K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$15K 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
COVID–19 Safer Detention Act of 2021
12 filingsthrough 2022
S. 601117th CongressProhibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3356110th CongressImproving Foreign Intelligence Surveillance to Defend the Nation and the Constitution Act of 200710 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3773110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 200810 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1232114th CongressStop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act9 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.
Neema GulianiAmerican Civil Liberties UnionCovered position: Counsel, House Oversight and Govt. Reform Committee; Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security26 filingsthrough 2018
Laura W MurphyAmerican Civil Liberties Union20 filingsthrough 2015
Gabriel RottmanAmerican Civil Liberties Union17 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher CalabreseAmerican Civil Liberties Union17 filingsthrough 2014
Andrea LarueNvg, LLCCovered position: Rules Committee Counsel, Senator Christopher Dodd; Counsel, Senator Thomas A. Daschle; Legislative Assistant & District Director, Congressman Michael A. Andrews16 filingsthrough 2026
Tara Palmer StutsmanAmerican Civil Liberties UnionCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Jeff Merkley; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jeff Merkley14 filingsthrough 2026
Madison RobertsAmerican Civil Liberties Union13 filingsthrough 2026
Keyarmin HamadanchyAmerican Civil Liberties UnionCovered position: Counsel, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Oversight Counsel, House Committee on Education and Labor (Rep. Bobby Scott).13 filingsthrough 2026
