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-union-of-painters-and-allied-trades.
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.
BUD
63 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
43 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
42 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
39 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
32 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
31 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
29 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
18 filings
$2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
17 filings
$2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
16 filings
$1.6M 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. 484113th CongressLead Exposure Reduction Amendments Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1616113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 761113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1727118th CongressSECURE Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1306116th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Elizabeth McelroyInternational Union of Painters and Allied Trades
20 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew B. KeelenThe Vogel Group20 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES BREWER jrInternational Union of Painters and Allied Trades18 filingsthrough 2015
John J DohertyInternational Union of Painters and Allied Trades17 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen BorgThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Representative Timothy V. Johnson10 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew NehringThe Vogel Group9 filingsthrough 2026
