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: dow-chemical-company.
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.
8 filings
$210K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$330K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$160K on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$30K 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.
110th Congress
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1401110th CongressRail and Public Transportation Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1110th CongressImplementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2784110th CongressNational Environment and Energy Development Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 773111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6258110th CongressCarbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6570110th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3281110th CongressDrive America on Natural Gas Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2072112th CongressExport-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 6709110th CongressNational Conservation, Environment, and Energy Independence Act1 filingthrough 2008
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.
