68 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2025 · latest filed Nov 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
22 filings
$630K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
21 filings
$600K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 31 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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: illinois-tool-works.
CPT
17 filings
$510K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$350K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$310K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$170K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$10K 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
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5689110th CongressSmuggled Tobacco Prevention Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20072 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.
