41 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2016 · latest filed May 9, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$317K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$317K
across every firm on file
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
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: better-world-fund-energy-future-coalition.
$150K
fees reported
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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.
ENV
2 filings
$50K 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.
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3059111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1017114th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Power Act to improve the siting of interstate electric transmission facilities, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 179112th CongressGulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 400112th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Power Act to ensure that rates and charges for electric energy are assessed in proportion to measurable reliability or economic benefit, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4226111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1637111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 774111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
