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: cleveland-cliffs-inc.
$500K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
23 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
18 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
14 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$830K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Retirement
RET
11 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
8 filings
$670K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$190K 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.
119th Congress
SHIPS for America Act of 2025
7 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20257 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3882118th CongressLeveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1856118th CongressLeveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1187117th CongressEliminating Global Market Distortions To Protect American Jobs Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 448119th CongressCIRCUIT Act5 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3917118th CongressStop Mexico’s Steel Surge Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher Reed EckholdThe Wessel Group IncorporatedCovered position: Legislative Assistant - Rep. Randy Forbes13 filingsthrough 2026
