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: issue-one.
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.
SCI
13 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$225K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Constitution
CON
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.
118th Congress
Honest Ads Act
9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1272116th CongressRestoring Integrity to America’s Elections Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 679116th CongressPolitical Accountability and Transparency Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2034115th CongressRestoring Integrity to America's Elections Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3130118th CongressProtecting Election Administration from Interference Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3229118th CongressStop Foreign Funds in Elections Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1318118th CongressElection Worker Protection Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1876118th CongressPlatform Accountability and Transparency Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1414117th CongressRestoring Integrity to America’s Elections Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 336117th CongressTRUST in Congress Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 337117th CongressFADE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1060116th CongressDefending Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines Act of 20198 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.
