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: florida-crystals-corporation.
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.
103 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
86 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
62 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
60 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
13 filings
$200K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$1M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
6 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$75K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$20K 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.
114th Congress
Sugar Reform Act of 2015
14 filingsthrough 2016
S. 475114th CongressSugar Reform Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2454113th CongressAaron's Law Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454112th CongressChild Tax Credit Equality for Puerto Rico Act of 201111 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454114th CongressTo provide for the public disclosure of information regarding surveillance activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.8 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.
