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: arch-resources-inc-formerly-arch-coal-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.
TAX
63 filings
$15.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
60 filings
$15.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
59 filings
$13.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
58 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
51 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
31 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
29 filings
$11.2M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
23 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
20 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$5.8M 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
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes.
11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1733118th CongressKids in Classes Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2073118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Other Federal Drug Control Programs for fiscal year 2024.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2462118th CongressProtect American Energy From China Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2505118th CongressToxic Health Threat Warning Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4799118th CongressRVC ARE Neo-Nazis Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6102118th CongressCommission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of American LGBTQI+ History and Culture Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7937118th CongressDEI DOA Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1447118th CongressBipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1455118th CongressRural Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1600118th CongressBorder Management, Security, and Assistance Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Stephen Douglas WardVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman
24 filingsthrough 2019
John R SniderArch Resources, Inc. (Formerly Arch Coal, Inc.)15 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
