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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
Animals
ANI
1 filing
Defense
DEF
1 filing
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4269112th CongressTo amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.1 filingthrough 2011
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: farm-sanctuary.
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
Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2008
1 filingthrough 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.
Jeffrey PikeSher & Blackwell LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Committee Merchant Marine3 filingsthrough 2008
