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: carnegie-mellon-university.
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.
69 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Education
EDU
65 filings
$6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
64 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
46 filings
$4M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
27 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
24 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
23 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
20 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
19 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
10 filings
$960K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
S. 14111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4588117th CongressRegional Innovation Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6112th CongressReserved for the Speaker.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 14112th CongressA bill to establish a Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies.3 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.
