50 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2022 · latest filed Jan 5, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
42 filings
$950K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
35 filings
$780K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 69 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2307117th CongressEnergy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20195 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-palo-alto-california.
CAW
14 filings
$350K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$250K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
7 filings
$180K on those filings
Postal
POS
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$30K 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.
115th Congress
Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4550117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3045117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3353115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1655115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4441114th CongressAviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 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.
