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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: lpl-financial.
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
65 filings
$12.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
117th Congress
Assessing Chinese Special Operations Forces Act of 2022
9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8606117th CongressTo amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the extension of certain contracts to procure rail rolling stock, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 321117th Congress"Six Triple Eight" Congressional Gold Medal Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 223115th CongressSenior$afe Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1013119th CongressRetirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2441119th CongressImproving Disclosure for Investors Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
S. 424119th CongressRetirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7310118th CongressFlood Risk Transparency for Homebuyers Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2387118th CongressWildfire Smoke Emergency Declaration Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2954117th CongressSecuring a Strong Retirement Act of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1272117th CongressSIMPLE Plan Modernization Act8 filingsthrough 2022
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.
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
