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.
Agriculture
AGR
70 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
50 filings
$1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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-strawberry-commission.
27 filings
$540K 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.
116th Congress
Preventing Foreign CENSORSHIP in America Act
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4333111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1600110th CongressEAT Healthy America Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 317110th CongressArkansas Valley Conduit Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 764114th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6417115th CongressAG and Legal Workforce Act2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4333112th CongressEnhancing Nutrition Services to the Elderly and Disabled Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2011
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.
