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: johnson-johnson.
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.
20 filings
$700K on those filings
Veterans
VET
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$400K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$355K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$40K 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.
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1591110th CongressU.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2138110th CongressInvestment in America Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4110th CongressMedicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 976110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1893110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2029110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2221110th CongressTransparency in Medical Device Pricing Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2449110th CongressSunshine in Litigation Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3110th CongressMedicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 334110th CongressHealthy Americans Act4 filingsthrough 2008
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.
