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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$360K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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: fugro-earthdata-and-other-fugro-operating-companies.
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
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.
112th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2354112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2701111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 7322110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 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.
Covered position: Scheduler, Rep. Erik Paulsen
6 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 2 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
