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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-longshore-warehouse-union.
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.
TRA
40 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
21 filings
$710K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$750K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
13 filings
$645K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$380K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$420K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$250K 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
Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability Act of 2018
1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 676110th CongressUnited States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)1 filingthrough 2008
S. 334110th CongressHealthy Americans Act1 filingthrough 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.
