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: constellation-energy-group.
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.
TAX
11 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
9 filings
$8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
8 filings
$7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
5 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$4M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
4 filings
$3.4M 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 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3079111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 946111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S.J.Res. 26111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1650110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1084112th CongressFracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1136112th CongressExecutive Cyberspace Coordination Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1242112th CongressNuclear Power Plant Safety Act of 20113 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.
