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: independent-electrical-contractors-inc.
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.
ENG
52 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
49 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
47 filings
$2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
40 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
35 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
32 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
30 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
27 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$850K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
13 filings
$460K 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.
118th Congress
American Workforce Empowerment Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2037117th CongressJOBS Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 447117th CongressNational Apprenticeship Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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.
5 filingsthrough 2026
W Thayer LongIndependent Electrical Contractors, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph CephasIndependent Electrical Contractors, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
