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: esop-association.
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.
LBR
69 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
69 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
62 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Banking
BAN
19 filings
$957K 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.
110th Congress
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2007
H.R. 1244112th CongressPromotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1232112th CongressA bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1512112th CongressPromotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.Con.Res. 204111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 692111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1612111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2909111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2914111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
The Esop Association
14 filingsthrough 2022
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLP13 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick Lonergan RussoThe Esop AssociationCovered position: Staff Assistant10 filingsthrough 2026
