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: associated-equipment-distributors.
$10K
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.
ENG
39 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
39 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
38 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
33 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
18 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$870K 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.
S. 480117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 617117th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 216116th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3497116th CongressJOBS Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 839116th CongressJOBS Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 499114th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 860114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2826118th CongressSave Local Business Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1261118th CongressSave Local Business Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1706118th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act7 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.
