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-pizza-hut-franchise-holders-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.
FOO
34 filings
$650K on those filings
Banking
BAN
24 filings
$480K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
16 filings
$300K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$220K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$20K 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.
116th Congress
Restoring Investment in Improvements Act
6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2474116th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 687112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1398111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3441115th CongressSave Local Business Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2695111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3094112th CongressWorkforce Democracy and Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
William D HarrisThe Mita Group, Inc.Covered position: n/a
22 filingsthrough 2015
David A DekeyserThe Mita Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief/Staff, Sen Sessions; Chief/Staff, Sen Corker13 filingsthrough 2012
JAMES R EDWARDS jrThe Mita Group, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep Ed Bryant; LA/PS, Rep John Duncan13 filingsthrough 2012
