61 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 18, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: association-of-global-automakers.
Association of Global Automakers — Receipts Report
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
23 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$600K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
11 filings
$396K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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.
114th Congress
Wi-Fi Innovation Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 424114th CongressWi-Fi Innovation Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 287116th CongressBicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1925113th CongressDriver Privacy Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5312110th CongressAutomobile Arbitration Fairness Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5638110th CongressTo amend title 35, United States Code, to create an exception from infringement for certain component parts used to repair another article of manufacture.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1607110th CongressCurrency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1677110th CongressCurrency Reform and Financial Markets Access Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3013115th CongressA bill to amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to require Congressional approval before the President adjusts imports that are determined to threaten to impair national security.3 filingsthrough 2018
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.
