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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
27 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 127 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2981113th CongressTRANSFER Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5721117th CongressVA Infrastructure Powers Exceptional Research Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
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-independent-research-institutes.
20 filings
$850K on those filings
Defense
DEF
13 filings
$530K on those filings
Veterans
VET
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$40K 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
Accelerating Biomedical Research Act
4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1513112th CongressGreat Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1222112th CongressDATA Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 810112th CongressGreat Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1771115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 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.
Aaron T KieslerLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Caseworker, and Field Representative, Office of Congresswoman Jackie Speier9 filingsthrough 2021
