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-longshoremens-association.
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.
MAR
12 filings
$670K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$570K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$210K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$100K 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.
S. 2113118th CongressPLUS Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1519114th CongressPORTS Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1630114th CongressPLUS Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5300111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 545115th CongressNational Right-to-Work Act6 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.
6 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 1 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
