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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Kevin McCarthyR-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 215, H.R. 2989
12 filings
3 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: earthjustice.
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.
ENG
61 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
61 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
60 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI
58 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
38 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
32 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$335K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
1 filing
$221K 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.
116th Congress
FAIR Act
12 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1568116th CongressSAVE Right Whales Act12 filingsthrough 2020
S. 387117th CongressGrand Canyon Protection Act10 filingsthrough 2022
S. 877117th CongressRoadless Area Conservation Act of 202110 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 27115th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that America's Federal public lands are national treasures that belong to all Americans.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 36115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation".10 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 38115th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 59115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act".10 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 87115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Approval, Disapproval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Air Quality Implementation Plans and Federal Implementation Plan; Utah; Revisions to Regional Haze State Implementation Plan; Federal Implementation Plan for Regional Haze".10 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Sarah SaylorEarthjusticeCovered position: Senior Legislative Representative29 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen T SchimaEarthjusticeCovered position: Laura Esquivel was added as a new lobbyist as a mistake on initial Q4 2023 filing; this amended filing is to correct that24 filingsthrough 2024
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Pol Dir (Senate Maj Ldr Frist); Staff Dir (Senate Pub. Health SC); Maj Health Pol Csl (House Ways/Means C, Health SC); Health Pol Coord & Csl (Senate Labor/HR C); Csl & Prof Staff (Senate Labor/HR C, Disab Pol SC); Case Wkr (Rep. Boschwitz)5 filingsthrough 2023
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: CoS (Rep. Lofgren); Dir of Congressional Relations (FTC); Dep Dir for Legis Affairs (Office of VP Gore); Staff Asst (Senator Metzenbaum)5 filingsthrough 2023
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Exec Dir (House Repub Pol C); CoS (Rep. Shadegg); LA (Rep. Dannemeyer); LD (Rep. Bartlett)5 filingsthrough 2023
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Pol; General Csl & Pol Dir (House Repub Conf)5 filingsthrough 2023
Sage EastmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Strategy Dir, Dep Staff Dir (Maj), Sr Adv (House Ways/Means C); Comm Dir (Rep. Camp)5 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 30 of 56 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
