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
66 filings
$746K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
19 filings
$219K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3285115th CongressSustainable, Affordable, Fair, and Efficient (SAFE) National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
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-marathon.
MAR
16 filings
$190K on those filings
Insurance
INS
8 filings
$90K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$43K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$22K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
1 filing
$12K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
1 filing
$12K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$11K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$11K 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.
S. 911112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
