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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
10 filings
$150K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$110K on those filings
Constitution
CON
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 4111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 210111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1090110th CongressSocial Security Guarantee Plus Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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: federation-of-responsible-citizens-formerly-american-federation-of-seniorcitizen.
5 filings
$50K 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
Social Security Preservation Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 676110th CongressUnited States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 302110th CongressSocial Security Lock-Box Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 86111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1019110th CongressUniversal Health Care Choice and Access Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 4111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.J.Res. 4112th CongressProposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 210112th CongressFilipino Veterans Fairness Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 193111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 219111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 676111th 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.
