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
34 filings
$298K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$270K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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-springfield-or.
ECN
17 filings
$170K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
12 filings
$120K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Postal
POS
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$40K 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.
Timber Innovation Act of 2016
1 filingthrough 2016
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.
Kirsten M PrattSmith GarsonCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Peter DeFazio
