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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
48 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
47 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: copper-development-association.
CAW
42 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
35 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
33 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
28 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$485K on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$320K on those filings
Veterans
VET
11 filings
$1M on those filings
Minting/Money/Gold Standard
MON
8 filings
$435K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$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.
118th Congress
Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2024
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1922110th CongressTSA Acquisition Reform Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5350113th CongressInfection Reduction Labeling Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
Michael Alexander BersonKinghorn, Hilbert & Associates
