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: barrick-gold-of-north-america.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
RES
37 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
19 filings
$3M on those filings
Minting/Money/Gold Standard
MON
7 filings
$890K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
6 filings
$886K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$664K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$519K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$490K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$278K on those filings
Constitution
CON
1 filing
$125K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$90K 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.
118th Congress
Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2024
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3746118th CongressFiscal Responsibility Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1281118th CongressMining Regulatory Clarity Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1534110th CongressMercury Export Ban Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1335118th CongressTAPP American Resources Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8998118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 537117th CongressSupplemental Security Income Equality Act3 filingsthrough 2022
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.
