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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 31 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1768115th CongressNational Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2815114th CongressAssuring Quality Outcomes in Higher Education Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
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: boston-college.
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$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.
119th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5857112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20134 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3241112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20134 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
