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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
34 filings
$680K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1054115th CongressBotanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act7 filingsthrough 2018
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: chicago-botanic-garden.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act
4 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5171113th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3288110th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3289110th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2996111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
