83 filings from 7 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Jan 18, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
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: ebay.
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.
CSP
30 filings
$989K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
28 filings
$895K on those filings
Postal
POS
23 filings
$955K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
21 filings
$785K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$410K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
9 filings
$400K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$400K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$300K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K 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
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 7756117th CongressBorder Security and Migrant Safety Act of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
S. 936117th CongressINFORM Consumers Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1843117th CongressSHOP SAFE Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1653112th CongressTo amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase the dollar amount requirements for articles and merchandise under the administrative exemptions and entry under regulations provisions of that Act.5 filingsthrough 2012
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.
