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: brazos-transit-district.
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.
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$10K 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
American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Financing Act of 2012
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4281112th CongressSurface Transportation Extension Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.J.Res. 117113th CongressProviding for the appointment of Michael Lynton as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 3857112th CongressPublic Transit Security and Local Law Enforcement Support Act1 filingthrough 2012
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.
