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: duke-university.
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.
64 filings
$8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
61 filings
$7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
57 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
55 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
44 filings
$5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
40 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
18 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
11 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$1M 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.
119th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
3 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5893118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4119th CongressRescissions Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
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.
Covered position:
7 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel PortmanDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Deputy Health Policy Director, Committee on Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Health Policy Assistant, Sen. Richard Burr; Intern, Rep. Robert Portman7 filingsthrough 2026
Vanessa Jeanne LeDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Special Advisor and Special Counsel, Office of The Director of National Intelligence; Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
