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: human-rights-campaign.
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.
TAX
85 filings
$18.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
77 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
77 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
75 filings
$17M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
74 filings
$18.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
72 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Housing
HOU
61 filings
$16.3M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
58 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
14 filings
$330K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$290K 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.
110th Congress
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007
19 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1755113th CongressEmployment Non-Discrimination Act of 201318 filingsthrough 2014
S. 439114th CongressStudent Non-Discrimination Act of 201517 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1592110th CongressLocal Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 200717 filingsthrough 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.
through 2025
Robin MarilHuman Rights Campaign43 filingsthrough 2020
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader41 filingsthrough 2024
Carlyle ThorsenRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: General Counsel & AA, Rep. Tom DeLay; Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Legislative Counsel, Rep. McCollum and LoBiondo40 filingsthrough 2020
