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: general-motors-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.
HCR
19 filings
$16.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
12 filings
$16.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$16M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$16M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
5 filings
$15.9M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
5 filings
$15.9M 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
A 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.
6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1015110th CongressTo require automobile dealers to disclose to consumers the presence of event data recorders, or "black boxes", on new automobiles, and to require manufacturers to provide the consumer with the option to enable and disable such devices on future automobiles.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1038110th CongressAccess to Life-Saving Medicine Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1773110th CongressSafe American Roads Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1956110th CongressPatient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2125110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2138110th CongressInvestment in America Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2184110th CongressEnhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 251110th CongressTruth in Caller ID Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 275110th CongressGlobal Online Freedom Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2776110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 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.
through 2009
Joseph TrahernGeneral Motors CorporationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Matsui, US House5 filingsthrough 2009
G Mustafa MohataremGeneral Motors Corporation5 filingsthrough 2009
Mark L KemmerGeneral Motors Corporation5 filingsthrough 2009
M B OGLESBY jrBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2009
