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: lg-electronics-u-s-a-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.
TAX
18 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
17 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
9 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
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.
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Sen. Commit. on Approp.5 filingsthrough 2018
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: LD to Cong. Scarborough. CoS Cong. Miller/Gaetz5 filingsthrough 2018
Patrick CliftonLg Electronics U.S.A., Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the President for Operations, Executive Office of the President, President Donald J. Trump (17-19).2 filingsthrough 2025
Steven EichenauerPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.1 filingthrough 2024
