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: bifma.
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.
CSP
17 filings
$280K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
14 filings
$294K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$292K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$58K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$52K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
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.
112th Congress
Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2011
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4248115th CongressTo amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to repeal certain disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2018
S. 3406110th CongressADA Amendments Act of 20081 filingthrough 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.
