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: ecolab-inc.
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.
TRD
47 filings
$14.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
45 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
27 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
26 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
23 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
22 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
13 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$3.4M 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.
114th Congress
Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017
10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1113115th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act9 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1218114th CongressNEWS Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1009113th CongressChemical Safety Improvement Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4617115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a temporary moratorium on the medical device excise tax.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5159115th CongressClean Coal Jobs Act of 20187 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2373115th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for production of refined coal.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1894114th CongressCalifornia Emergency Drought Relief Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20186 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.
JAMES R. BAILEY iii
Ecolab Inc.
Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Stenholm
21 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey K PetersonEcolab Inc.15 filingsthrough 2012
