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: commonwealth-of-pennsylvania.
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.
54 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
46 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
42 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
40 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Education
EDU
37 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
35 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
29 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
18 filings
$570K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
14 filings
$620K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$810K 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.
113th Congress
Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3930113th CongressNational Commission on the Structure of the Army Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1086113th CongressChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2289113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3116112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4297112th CongressWorkforce Investment Improvement Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act2 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.
Blank Rome Government Relations
10 filingsthrough 2010
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter10 filingsthrough 2010
John Mark TrumboreBorski AssociatesCovered position: Leg Asst (Rep McHale), Leg Dir (Rep Brady)10 filingsthrough 2010
Keith PemrickCommonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Tim Holden9 filingsthrough 2022
George Shawn McelweeCommonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Charlie Dent9 filingsthrough 2022
William HornBirch, Horton, Bittner & CherotCovered position: Assistant Sec. for Fish, Wildlife & Parks, DOI9 filingsthrough 2012
ROBERT A BORSKI jrBorski AssociatesCovered position: Member of Congress (1983-2003)9 filingsthrough 2010
Melissa Cortese FoxmanBlank Rome Government Relations8 filingsthrough 2010
Katie HazlettCommonwealth Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary; House Member Office: Rodney Frelinghuysen: Chief of Staff (2017-2019), Deputy CofS (2014-2017), LD (2011-2014), LA (2006-2011)6 filingsthrough 2022
Mark HolmanRidge Policy GroupCovered position: '91HouseAA;2001-02 DepAssttoPresHmlndScrty6 filingsthrough 2014
Mark CampbellRidge Policy GroupCovered position: '90-'94HouseAA6 filingsthrough 2014
