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
14 filings
$200K on those filings
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$200K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 43 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1256110th CongressTo amend title 5, United States Code, to increase the level of Government contributions under the Federal employees health benefits program.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1873110th CongressSmall Business Fairness in Contracting Act4 filingsthrough 2008
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-procurement-technical-assistance-centers.
14 filings
$200K 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.
110th Congress
To amend the Small Business Act to expand and improve the assistance provided by Small Business Development Centers to Indian tribe members, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2359110th CongressSBA Entrepreneurial Development Programs Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2366110th CongressSBA Veterans' Programs Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2397110th CongressSBA Women's Business Programs Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2532110th CongressMinority-Owned Venture Empowerment Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3567110th CongressSmall Business Investment Expansion Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3866110th CongressSmall Business Programs Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3867110th CongressSmall Business Contracting Program Improvements Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4253110th CongressMilitary Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1845111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5013111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 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.
