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.
Agriculture
AGR
12 filings
$602K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
8 filings
$137K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454112th CongressChild Tax Credit Equality for Puerto Rico Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Sara HopperEnvironmental Defense Fund, Incorporated13 filingsthrough 2012
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: environmental-defense-fund-incorporated.
fees reported
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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.
MAR
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$175K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$10K 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.
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)3 filingsthrough 2024
