18 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 22, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$936K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$936K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: austin-energy-city-of-austin-texas.
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.
17 filings
$918K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$634K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
14 filings
$634K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
10 filings
$449K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$487K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$434K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$189K 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
Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6258110th CongressCarbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 6116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1434110th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 896 Pittsburgh Street in Springdale, Pennsylvania, as the "Rachel Carson Post Office Building".2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1590110th CongressSafe Climate Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6316110th CongressClimate MATTERS Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5931111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 2899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3855111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
