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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
88 filings
$10M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 1,010 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1108118th CongressTo amend the Communications Act of 1934 to extend the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to grant a license or construction permit through a system of competitive bidding.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1123118th CongressUnderstanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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: competitive-carriers-association.
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.
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$320K 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.
H.R. 1377118th CongressPromoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 20238 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.
24 filingsthrough 2022
JOHN ADDISON HOWES jrCompetitive Carriers AssociationCovered position: Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Counsel, Nov 2021 - Jan 202312 filingsthrough 2025
Emerald Litke-SmithCompetitive Carriers AssociationCovered position: Intern, Office of Senator Roger F. Wicker (January 2016 - May 2016)10 filingsthrough 2026
