16 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Jan 15, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$39K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$39K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: community-food-security-coalition.
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.
URB
4 filings
$10K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$10K 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.
through 2012
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4971111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3307111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 3307112th Congress21st Century Investment Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
