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-sleep-products-association.
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.
TRD
10 filings
$90K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$50K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
8 filings
$250K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$30K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
4 filings
$250K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$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.
H.R. 1939112th CongressEnhancing CPSC Authority and Discretion Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4112th CongressComprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3692111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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 GARBER jrInternational Sleep Products Association
