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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
57 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
48 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: institute-of-international-education.
2 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.
113th Congress
METRICS Act
4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3241113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 6385115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1780115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3108115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3117114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3362115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5912115th CongressTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to delay the reduction in Federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid personal care services and home health services furnished without an electronic visit verification system, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2017
S. 3117115th CongressFair Access for Farmers and Ranchers Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 114114th CongressJerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5912114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2499113th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 8595119th CongressNational Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
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.
