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
65 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
46 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 57 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act6 filingsthrough 2016
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: colorado-state-university-foundation.
31 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$580K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$440K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$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.
115th Congress
PROSPER Act
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3266115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3267115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3268115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6072115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 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.
