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: koch-industries-inc.
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.
TOR
4 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
4 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
3 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$11.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$11.4M 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
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5351110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20088 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2242110th CongressTo prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5719110th CongressTaxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4066110th CongressClose the Enron Loophole Act6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5720110th CongressHousing Assistance Tax Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6074110th CongressGas Price Relief for Consumers Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6130110th CongressTo provide for a study of the effects of speculation in the futures markets for natural gas, crude oil, and gasoline on cash market and retail prices for the commodities and on the choice of trading venue, and to require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding comparability of foreign regulation of futures and derivatives trading.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6330110th CongressPrevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6334110th CongressIncreasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 20085 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.
