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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
75 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
28 filings
$498K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1346115th CongressTo repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled "Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform".10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5198115th CongressRestoring Local Control Act4 filingsthrough 2018
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: anoka-county-regional-railroad-authority.
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.
17 filings
$156K on those filings
Veterans
VET
14 filings
$252K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
11 filings
$89K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$45K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$18K 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.
110th Congress
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6004110th CongressRail Infrastructure Development and Expansion Act for the 21st Century3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6052110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
