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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
69 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 602 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1837118th CongressInvesting in Our Communities Act10 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1453118th CongressLOCAL Infrastructure Act10 filingsthrough 2024
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-river-energy-services.
48 filings
$863K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
23 filings
$532K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$406K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
18 filings
$306K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$113K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$103K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$101K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
4 filings
$101K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$47K 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.
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.
