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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
11 filings
$530K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1085112th CongressA bill to amend the Clean Air Act to define next generation biofuel, and to allow States the option of not participating in the corn ethanol portions of the renewable fuel standard due to conflicts with agricultural, economic, energy, and environmental goals.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2155112th CongressA bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to promote biobased manufacturing.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Gephardt; Chief of Staff, Green22 filingsthrough 2014
Dean AguillenOgrCovered position: Advr, Pelosi; Dir Intgvt Aff, Labor; LA, Sandlin22 filingsthrough 2014
Gordon TaylorOgrCovered position: COS/LD/Coun,John;Leg Asst/Press Secy,Hayes18 filingsthrough 2013
Stanton BullockOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Daniel Moynihan
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: arizona-chemical.
TAX
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$60K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3839111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 2146112th CongressClean Energy Standard Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 4853111th 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.
