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: medtronic.
fees reported
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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.
HCR
37 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
10 filings
$110K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$512K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$325K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$468K on those filings
Torts
TOR
2 filings
$124K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$120K 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.
114th Congress
Medicare CGM Access Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 610111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 160114th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2015
S. 144114th CongressLocal Leadership in Education Act5 filingsthrough 2015
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4679113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2360113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 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.
13 filingsthrough 2012
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant12 filingsthrough 2018
