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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$760K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$685K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1084112th CongressFracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
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: chesapeake-energy.
9 filings
$645K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$270K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$190K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$165K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$145K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$70K 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.
112th Congress
New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2766111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1835111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1622111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1215111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1350111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1408111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1809111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3795111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
