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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: eastman-kodak-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.
MAN
27 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
26 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Postal
POS
26 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
24 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
23 filings
$4M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
20 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
14 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$3M 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.
113th Congress
Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2748113th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1486113th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1468113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1612113th CongressPatent Litigation Integrity Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
