67 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jun 6, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: chevron.
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.
36 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
31 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
26 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$50K 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.
110th Congress
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 756113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.Res. 745112th CongressExpressing concern regarding the conditions of democracy, freedom of the press, human rights, business and investment climate, counternarcotics cooperation, and the relationship with Iran, in Ecuador prior to the July 31, 2013, expiration of the Andean Trade Preference Act and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7222110th CongressTo extend the Andean Trade Preference Act, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 280110th CongressClimate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 309110th CongressGlobal Warming Pollution Reduction Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 485110th CongressGlobal Warming Reduction Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2194111th 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.
