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.
Christine SigurdsonEwg Action FundCovered position: Policy Fellow, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin Chair)6 filingsthrough 2016
Alex FormuzisEwg Action FundCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Jean Carnahan; Press Secretary, Sen. Kent Conrad; Deputy Communications Director & Communications Director, Sen. Frank Lautenberg6 filingsthrough 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 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: ewg-action-fund.
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.
FOO
8 filings
$166K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$93K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$78K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Torts
TOR
3 filings
$73K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$16K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$15K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$8K 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 2016
S. 511114th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 809113th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1927114th CongressFairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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.
