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.
Education
EDU
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 217 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1059116th CongressFINISH Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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: georgia-state-university-research-foundation.
43 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
30 filings
$860K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
30 filings
$850K on those filings
Defense
DEF
29 filings
$800K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
20 filings
$550K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
18 filings
$500K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
16 filings
$460K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$310K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$90K 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.
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20225 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3062117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1891112th CongressSetting New Priorities in Education Spending Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2218112th CongressEmpowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
