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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$251K on those filings
Education
EDU
14 filings
$143K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 77 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1028110th CongressTo create a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.4 filingsthrough 2008
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: minot-state-university.
11 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
4 filings
$43K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$33K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$22K on those filings
Retirement
RET
3 filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$22K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$22K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$11K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$11K 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.
110th Congress
Methamphetamine Remediation Research Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2954117th CongressSecuring a Strong Retirement Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
S. 331117th CongressABLE Age Adjustment Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4102117th CongressSSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1771115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
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.
