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: international-business-machines-corporation-ibm.
$370K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
DEF
69 filings
$78.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
68 filings
$85M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
68 filings
$85M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
67 filings
$83.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
63 filings
$79.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
54 filings
$70.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
19 filings
$24.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$23.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
16 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$16M 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.
115th Congress
Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act
13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 540115th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201912 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201912 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202011 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 202011 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1691115th CongressInternet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 793118th CongressJOBS Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
S. 161118th CongressJOBS Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4015115th CongressCorporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 201710 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.
Debra L MarksInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)66 filingsthrough 2022
EDGAR H MCCULLOCH iiiInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)62 filingsthrough 2021
Michael Dipaula-CoyleInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)59 filingsthrough 2026
Yelena VaynbergInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)55 filingsthrough 2025
Cheryl BrunerInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)55 filingsthrough 2020
Steven W StewartInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)54 filingsthrough 2019
Timothy J SheehyInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)50 filingsthrough 2019
Dana GrayInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Tauscher32 filingsthrough 2016
Ryan HagemannInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)30 filingsthrough 2026
Frank CristinzioInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mikulski; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Schrock30 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin WalshInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)Covered position: Special Assistant to Senator McCaskill27 filingsthrough 2021
Craig E BuryInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)Covered position: S. Approp Comm; Designee S. Armed Svcs Comm26 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey BrownInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)23 filingsthrough 2026
Pj EdingtonInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)23 filingsthrough 2013
Mark O'RileyInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)23 filingsthrough 2013
David Neil BarnesInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)23 filingsthrough 2013
Edmund F PerryInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)21 filingsthrough 2013
Joshua NewInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)20 filingsthrough 2024
Mason MoleskyInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)19 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory ProseusInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)19 filingsthrough 2026
Roslyn DocktorInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)18 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher A PadillaInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)Covered position: DOC: Under Sec. Intl Trade; Asst Sec. Export18 filingsthrough 2013
Hera AbbasiInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)16 filingsthrough 2023
Pat PelletierInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)15 filingsthrough 2025
Edward A GillespieInternational Business Machines Corporation (Ibm)15 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 16 of 60 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
