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: honda-north-america-inc.
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.
TRD
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$690K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
8 filings
$480K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
5 filings
$290K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$160K 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.
115th Congress
Tax Extender Act of 2017
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 875113th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1809115th CongressMoving FIRST Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3329115th CongressTrade Security Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 617114th CongressRECALL Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
S. 921113th CongressRaechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1380112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1863112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4678111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Amanda WatersShl and Associates, Inc.
2 filingsthrough 2008
Vergil CabascoShl and Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Gordon KennyShl and Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Bryan VickersShl and Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
