31 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 6, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$104K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$54K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$50K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$54K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 152113th CongressMaking supplemental appropriations for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2013, to improve and
streamline disaster assistance for Hurricane
Sandy, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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: defenders-of-wildlife-action-fund.
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
$30K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Animals
ANI
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
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.
113th Congress
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.
S. 872112th CongressA bill to amend the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act to modify the date as of which certain tribal land of the Lytton Rancheria of California is considered to be held in trust and to provide for the conduct of certain activities on the land.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2593111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 39111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4088111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5058111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5175111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5610111th 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.
