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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$298K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$248K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
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-zoological-society.
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.
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Animals
ANI
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
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
CLASS Act
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2994110th CongressGreat Lakes Legacy Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3036110th CongressNo Child Left Inside Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S.J.Res. 45110th CongressGreat Lakes--St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2054111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4497111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4812111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 52111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 669111th 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.
