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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
50 filings
$995K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
10 filings
$290K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1150114th CongressFrank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1593110th CongressSecond Chance Act of 20074 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: church-of-scientology-international.
7 filings
$185K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
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
Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.Res. 290114th CongressCalling for the global repeal of blasphemy laws.3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4653113th CongressUnited States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 714111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5570110th CongressReligious Worker Visa Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1025116th CongressUIGHUR Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 649116th CongressUyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 178116th CongressUIGHUR Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3471116th CongressUyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.Con.Res. 75114th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.2 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1798114th CongressUnited States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2878114th CongressFrank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act2 filingsthrough 2016
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.
