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: center-for-individual-freedom.
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.
HCR
34 filings
$369K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
33 filings
$378K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
30 filings
$414K on those filings
Banking
BAN
19 filings
$227K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
19 filings
$185K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
18 filings
$205K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
17 filings
$196K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
16 filings
$277K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$144K on those filings
Constitution
CON
12 filings
$195K 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.
113th Congress
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3441115th CongressSave Local Business Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4265115th CongressSugar Policy Modernization Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4130117th CongressAmerican Music Fairness Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 119115th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4706115th CongressMusic Modernization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
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.
