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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
72 filings
$8.9M on those filings
Constitution
CON
2 filings
$10K 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
The 15 most-cited of 201 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 42116th CongressBackground Check Expansion Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 69116th CongressConstitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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: citizens-committee-for-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1258118th CongressProtecting Gun Rights and Due Process Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1271118th CongressNo Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5738118th CongressAbbey Gate Gold Star Families Dignified Transport Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1446117th CongressEnhanced Background Checks Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1808117th CongressAssault Weapons Ban of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8117th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 736117th CongressAssault Weapons Ban of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1395116th CongressAge 21 Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1022111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1074111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1303111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 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.
