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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
34 filings
$480K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
22 filings
$380K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2474116th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20204 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2520116th CongressAn original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
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-palmdale-ca.
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.
ECN
22 filings
$380K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$240K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$60K 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.
116th Congress
An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3163116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
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.
The Ferguson Group
Covered position: Intern for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, 05/2009-07/2009; 01/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, 09/2009-04/2010 Intern for former U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, 06/2010-08/2010
14 filingsthrough 2020
Jennifer ImoThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
