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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: empire-district-electric-company.
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.
ENG
6 filings
$181K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$187K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$178K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$41K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$41K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$18K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
1 filing
$6K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2195111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 391111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4572111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2877111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2996111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 722111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2313110th CongressMarine Renewable Energy Research and Development Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1617110th CongressFuel Reduction using Electrons to End Dependence On the Mid-East (FREEDOM) Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
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.
