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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$400K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 37 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5351110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5719110th CongressTaxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 20085 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: national-association-of-college-and-university-business-officers.
110th Congress
Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2242110th CongressTo prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3795111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3933111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4090111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4691111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4851111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
