46 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2020 · latest filed Oct 12, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
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
22 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
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: city-of-baton-rouge-louisiana.
18 filings
$900K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
11 filings
$510K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$475K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
10 filings
$460K on those filings
Housing
HOU
8 filings
$360K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$310K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$230K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$130K 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
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Recovery Facilitation Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2822114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5538114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1174111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
