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.
Education
EDU
69 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
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: beth-medrash-govoha.
17 filings
$340K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K 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.
115th Congress
American Health Care Act of 2017
4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2669110th CongressCollege Cost Reduction and Access Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590112th CongressIndonesian Family Refugee Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4872112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of 80 mm or less in diameter.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3260110th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Covered position:
8 filingsthrough 2013
Laura LayWinning Strategies Washington1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
