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.
Education
EDU
70 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
26 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: namm-national-association-of-music-merchants.
19 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
14 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
13 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
11 filings
$1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
9 filings
$840K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
7 filings
$560K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$400K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$300K 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.
118th Congress
Arts Education for All Act
3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4750117th CongressPerforming Artist Tax Parity Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2872117th CongressPerforming Artist Tax Parity Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3990112th CongressEncouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2871118th CongressPerforming Artist Tax Parity Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 4750118th CongressBring Animals Relief and Kibble Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
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.
Butler DerrickNelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: Member, U.S. Congress 1975-1995
12 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
