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: irrigation-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.
12 filings
$410K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
12 filings
$405K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$216K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
5 filings
$106K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$116K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$97K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$36K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$30K 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.
110th Congress
Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1477118th CongressFreedom To Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 722118th CongressFreedom To Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 118111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4225111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2222111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5088111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew K SmithIrrigation Association5 filingsthrough 2009
