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-subcontractors-association-inc.
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.
GOV
7 filings
$63K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
6 filings
$63K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$45K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$43K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$8K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$8K 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.
112th Congress
Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development
2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 89112th CongressWithholding Tax Relief Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 292111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3671111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1778112th CongressConstruction Quality Assurance Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4112th CongressComprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 674112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 153112th CongressRobert C. Byrd Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 164112th CongressWithholding Tax Relief Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
