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: government-of-the-united-states-virgin-islands.
$390K
fees reported
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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.
AVI
12 filings
$850K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
11 filings
$760K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$675K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$430K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
8 filings
$540K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$450K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$435K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
6 filings
$460K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$345K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$335K 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. 302115th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
S. 1969110th CongressAlexander Hamilton Boyhood Home Study Act of 20071 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.
