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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: missouri-farm-bureau-federation.
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.
49 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
49 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
36 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
22 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
18 filings
$930K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$950K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$880K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$840K 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
Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 226114th CongressRegulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 860114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 935113th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 897114th CongressZika Vector Control Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 112114th CongressCommon Sense in Species Protection Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1500114th CongressSensible Environmental Protection Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 345114th CongressA bill to limit the level of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to agricultural producers.7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 511114th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act7 filingsthrough 2016
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.
