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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$660K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$560K on those filings
Automotive Industry
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1001112th CongressAlternative Fueled Vehicles Competitiveness and Energy Security Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 948112th CongressPromoting Electric Vehicles Act of 20114 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: honda-north-america-formerly-known-as-american-honda-motor-co.
AUT
6 filings
$320K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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.
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 positions · 3 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
