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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN
67 filings
$16M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
46 filings
$15.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 334 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 62115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to prepaid accounts under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and the Truth in Lending Act.11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1801115th CongressPACER Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Telecommunications Subcom.19 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew BarbourFs VectorCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Congressional Affairs, USTR Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Bill Ford17 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 109 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-transactions-association.
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
CPT
41 filings
$12.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
35 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
26 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
21 filings
$940K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
20 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
19 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
15 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
14 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$1.1M 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.
115th Congress
Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017
11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 387115th CongressConsumer Financial Protection Bureau Accountability Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
S. 626115th CongressCFPB-IG Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
S.J.Res. 19115th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to prepaid accounts under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and the Truth in Lending Act.11 filingsthrough 2018
S.J.Res. 34115th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services".11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 111117th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2022
H.J.Res. 35117th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency relating to "National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders".9 filingsthrough 2022
H.J.Res. 62117th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the interim final rule of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration relating to "COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard".9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 10117th CongressReserved for the Speaker.9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1421117th CongressTerritories College Access Act9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1595117th CongressKeep Huawei on the Entity List Act9 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.
Peter FreemanFs VectorCovered position: Leg. Corr., Leg. Asst., Rep. D. Pryce; Policy Advisor, House Republican Conference; Leg. Dir., Rep. D. Pryce; Dep. COS, Rep. D. Pryce; Prof. Staff, House Fin. Svcs. Cmte.; Dep. COS, Rep. Ed Royce; Prof. Staff, House Foreign Affairs Cmte.
17 filingsthrough 2026
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative Hefley, Legislative Aide; U.S. Representative Watkins, Legislative Director16 filingsthrough 2018
