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.
Manufacturing
MAN
70 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
50 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 58 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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: industrial-fasteners-institute.
TAX
41 filings
$980K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$660K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$110K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$60K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1381117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 522110th CongressIntellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 338118th CongressPermanently Repeal the Estate Tax Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
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.
