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-conservative-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.
CPT
35 filings
$858K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
35 filings
$825K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$889K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$804K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$248K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
17 filings
$687K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
15 filings
$660K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$654K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$680K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
13 filings
$659K 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.
115th Congress
STRONGER Patents Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2045114th CongressTargeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2426116th CongressCASE Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2930118th CongressClean Slate Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1074116th CongressREAL Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2212115th CongressCREATES Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 974115th CongressCREATES Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2983118th CongressFresh Start Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5005118th CongressSafer Supervision Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1035116th CongressPrescription Drug Price Transparency Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1416116th CongressAffordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 657116th CongressA bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to establish requirements with respect to prescription drug benefits.4 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.
