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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1190110th CongressConnect The Nation Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1126110th CongressTo reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.2 filingsthrough 2008
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: datapath-inc.
Defense
DEF
4 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.
110th Congress
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3465110th CongressRESPONDER Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2638111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 6947111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.Res. 1488111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.Res. 473111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1190111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3181111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3465111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
