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
11 filings
$740K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$740K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 84 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3745111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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-jacksonville-florida.
11 filings
$740K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
11 filings
$740K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$650K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$650K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
10 filings
$650K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$570K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$560K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
8 filings
$470K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$570K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$480K 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
To repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 777110th CongressWithholding Tax Relief Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1677111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 413111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5562111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1611111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2899111th 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
S. 787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 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.
