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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 398112th CongressImplementation of National Consensus Appliance Agreements Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
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: lg-electronics.
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.
112th Congress
Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3925111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2208112th CongressSmart Grid Advancement Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2396112th CongressElectronic Device Recycling Research and Development Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 438112th CongressEnergy Star Improvements Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 1270112th CongressResponsible Electronics Recycling Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 395112th CongressBetter Use of Light Bulbs Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4785111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 6252111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3617111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3780111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
