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.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
69 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
65 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 143 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2238117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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: california-association-of-sanitation-agencies.
HCR
23 filings
$580K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
23 filings
$410K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$250K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
12 filings
$230K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
10 filings
$190K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$170K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$150K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$30K 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
WIPPES Act
7 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1092119th CongressWIPPES Act7 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1181118th CongressTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to permitting terms, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 908112th CongressFull Implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 916112th CongressContinuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 473112th CongressContinuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 20116 filingsthrough 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.
9 filings
through 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
