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: lehigh-university.
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.
35 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$340K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$200K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$78K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
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.
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3072115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4553119th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2572119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
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.
