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: ibm.
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.
64 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
49 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Education
EDU
35 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
18 filings
$630K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$500K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$500K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$420K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$360K 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.
114th Congress
Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 686118th CongressRESTRICT Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1770115th CongressOPEN Government Data Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 589115th CongressDepartment of Energy Research and Innovation Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 760115th CongressOPEN Government Data Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1560114th CongressTo improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20147 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2353115th CongressStrengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1671115th CongressInternational Communications Privacy Act6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1865115th CongressAllow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1693115th CongressStop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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 2016
Matthew DennisCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.17 filingsthrough 2023
Brandon D DecletMcallister & Quinn, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Judiciary, House Homeland Security13 filingsthrough 2014
Douglas M GregoryVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Bill Young13 filingsthrough 2012
