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-newark.
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
14 filings
$290K on those filings
Housing
HOU
8 filings
$230K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$150K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$80K 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
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3093110th CongressDepartments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2641111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3074111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3093111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3182111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
