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.
Insurance
INS
16 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3200110th CongressNational Insurance Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20084 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: fidelity-and-guaranty-life-f-k-a-old-mutual-business-services-inc.
5 filings
$810K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$810K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$690K 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
Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2566110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 40110th CongressNational Insurance Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1389111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5840110th CongressInsurance Information Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3997110th CongressDefenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
