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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: greenpeace-inc.
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.
HOM
30 filings
$341K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
30 filings
$275K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
17 filings
$177K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$218K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
11 filings
$150K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$53K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
10 filings
$165K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
10 filings
$165K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
10 filings
$159K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
7 filings
$192K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 5695110th CongressNoncitizen Voting Prevention Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3531116th CongressResilient Communities Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7781116th CongressEnd Polluter Welfare Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 484118th CongressCombating Human Rights Abuses Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 908112th CongressFull Implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 916112th CongressContinuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
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.
