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: meadwestvaco-corporation.
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.
TRD
22 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
22 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
14 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
7 filings
$900K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$890K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
6 filings
$640K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$280K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$260K 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
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 747112th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1799111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1380112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1834112th CongressFreedom to Invest Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 622111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1369112th CongressSilviculture Regulatory Consistency Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2868111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
