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.
Michael Thomas OscarOscar Policy Group, LLCCovered position: From 2002-2010, I served on the staff of the former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.23 filingsthrough 2026
Denise BodeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2016
John W BodeOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC10 filingsthrough 2011
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-council-of-independent-laboratories.
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.
19 filings
$460K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$290K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$290K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
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
Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 914117th CongressDrinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2891118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1323118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2860118th CongressSAFER Banking Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20226 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
