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.
Welfare
WEL
70 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$305K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 253115th CongressFamily First Prevention Services Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
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: county-welfare-directors-association-of-california.
2 filings
$20K 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.
114th Congress
Reducing Duplicative and Ineffective Federal Funding Act
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5456114th CongressFamily First Prevention Services Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4980113th CongressPreventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2188110th CongressKinship Caregiver Support Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6307110th CongressFostering Connections to Success Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2667111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5613110th CongressProtecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5871112th CongressA Plus Act1 filingthrough 2012
S. 3472112th CongressUninterrupted Scholars Act (USA)1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
