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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
58 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
49 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 73 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
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-on-behalf-of-nalco-company.
TRD
35 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
33 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Veterans
VET
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$150K 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
NEWS Act of 2015
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1009113th CongressChemical Safety Improvement Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 501112th CongressImplementing the Recommendations of the BP Oil Spill Commission Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1000112th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 661112th CongressSafe Dispersants Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
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 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1894114th CongressCalifornia Emergency Drought Relief Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
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.
