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.
Health Issues
HCR
64 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
16 filings
$540K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20177 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: association-of-critical-care-transport.
13 filings
$780K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$120K 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. 1407112th CongressAir Ambulance Medicare Accreditation and Accountability Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1201111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2443111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 978111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1066111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1199111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1451111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4115th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5651112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Reform Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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.
