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.
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-grand-rapids.
$165K
fees reported
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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.
URB
20 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
20 filings
$160K on those filings
Housing
HOU
18 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$320K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
15 filings
$290K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$90K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
14 filings
$70K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
14 filings
$70K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$160K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
11 filings
$210K 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.
3 filings
through 2016
H.R. 413111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3194111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4057113th CongressCustoms Plaza Construction Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 904113th CongressSTRONG Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1135114th CongressDefending Our Great Lakes Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20161 filingthrough 2015
S. 1935114th CongressWaterfront Community Revitalization and Resiliency Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
S. 589114th CongressDefending Our Great Lakes Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 2599112th CongressPACE Assessment Protection Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
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.
Andrew Buczek
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Jim Barcia
