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: centurylink-inc.
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.
27 filings
$990K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K 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.
115th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3109115th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1376114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1619114th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3001114th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
6 filings
through 2009
Cathy KochErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Chief Advisor, Tax and Economics to Sen. Reid (2012-2015); Tax Chief, Senate Finance Committee (2007-2010)5 filingsthrough 2016
