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: building-and-construction-trades-department-afl-cio.
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.
4 filings
$143K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$132K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$132K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$83K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
2 filings
$60K 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.
114th Congress
Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4320111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6371112th CongressStreamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1122111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Covered position:
3 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher HeinzChristopher Heinz2 filingsthrough 2008
Sean O'NeillSiff & Lake LLPCovered position: S/A to the Secretary, Department of Labor1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
