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-horse-council.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
38 filings
$440K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
35 filings
$512K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
35 filings
$500K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$430K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$160K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$20K 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.
114th Congress
National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1110114th CongressNational Forest System Trails Stewardship Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1121114th CongressPAST Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 617117th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1225116th CongressRestore Our Parks and Public Lands Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1406113th CongressPAST Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5441117th CongressPAST Act of 20224 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.
