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: bnsf-railway.
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.
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$15K 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.
7 filings
through 2010
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2569111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1789112th CongressState and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 233112th CongressNo One Strike Eviction Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2569112th CongressFree File Program Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2125110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1401110th CongressRail and Public Transportation Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3651114th CongressPositive Train Control Enforcement and Implementation Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2095110th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1618111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1799111th 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.
through 2009
David YoungbloodThe Madison Group2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 1 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
