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: electronic-frontier-foundation.
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.
19 filings
$425K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
17 filings
$360K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$290K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$150K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$89K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$45K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$74K 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.
118th Congress
EARN IT Act of 2023
6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1409119th CongressPublic Safety Officer Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1829119th CongressSTOP CSAM Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 836119th CongressChildren and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8818118th CongressAmerican Privacy Rights Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1291118th CongressProtecting Kids on Social Media Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1418118th CongressChildren and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2220118th CongressPREVAIL Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2710117th CongressOpen App Markets Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2992117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Choice Online Act4 filingsthrough 2022
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.
