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: bridgestone-americas-inc.
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.
TRA
49 filings
$12M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
42 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
34 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
23 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
20 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
19 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
19 filings
$5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
18 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
17 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
16 filings
$4.5M 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.
H.R. 2052113th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1026113th CongressReturn to Work Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 420118th CongressCOVID–19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5365113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an above-the-line deduction for child care expenses, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
