44 filings from 2 registrants · 2000–2016 · latest filed Dec 31, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Science/Technology
SCI
44 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
33 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 38 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S.Res. 240114th CongressA resolution recognizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its partners for the success of the historic flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft.4 filingsthrough 2016
H.J.Res. 117113th CongressProviding for the appointment of Michael Lynton as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.4 filingsthrough 2013
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: johns-hopkins-university-applied-physics-laboratory.
fees reported
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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.
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
32 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.
113th Congress
Reserved for the Speaker.
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5393114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1376114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2837114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3000114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
