48 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Aug 13, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$8.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$8.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$110K
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.
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: direct-marketing-association-inc.
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.
POS
42 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
25 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN
13 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
13 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$1.5M 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.
S. 88115th CongressDIGIT Act15 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1053114th CongressTo establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to improve provisions relating to collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children, and for other purposes.14 filingsthrough 2016
S. 356114th CongressElectronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
S. 547114th CongressA bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to improve provisions relating to collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children, and for other purposes.14 filingsthrough 2016
S. 668114th CongressData Broker Accountability and Transparency Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.14 filingsthrough 2016
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.
