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.
Manufacturing
MAN
22 filings
$70K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
19 filings
$340K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 341111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
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: manufacturing-alliance-of-communities-formerly-mayors-automotive-coalition-mac.
ENV
13 filings
$200K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$40K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
5 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.
through 2018
H.R. 4505115th CongressRestoring Overtime Pay Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 6160115th CongressTo amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the sources of the authority to issue regulations regarding certifications and other criteria applicable to legislative branch employees under Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act.3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2526115th CongressRetirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2017
S. 399115th CongressChief Manufacturing Officer Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 701115th CongressMade in America Manufacturing Communities Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 341112th CongressNo Contracting with the Enemy Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2638111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2364111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
10 filings
through 2012
Matthew W WardThe Ferguson Group9 filingsthrough 2011
Blake R HoustonThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a6 filingsthrough 2013
Amanda WoodThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Office of Sen Bob Graham, Legislative Director5 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
