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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$210K on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$153K on those filings
Computer Industry
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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: livingston-group-on-behalf-of-oracle.
CPI
9 filings
$135K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$75K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$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.
113th Congress
Innovation Act
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2131113th CongressSKILLS Visa Act2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act1 filingthrough 2013
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.
