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.
Homeland Security
HOM
53 filings
$685K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
37 filings
$640K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1872115th CongressTSA Modernization Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4487114th CongressPublic Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
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-security-companies-nasco.
LBR
7 filings
$45K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$25K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$10K 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
Security Officer Screening Improvement Act of 2016
4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1362113th CongressChild Protection Improvements and Electronic Life and Safety Security Systems Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 772112th CongressSECURE Facilities Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3012116th CongressPrivate Security Officer Screening Improvement Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2658112th CongressFederal Protective Service Reform and Enhancement Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 963112th CongressSee Something, Say Something Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 505112th CongressSee Something, Say Something Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5053111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3359115th CongressCybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2647113th CongressSecurity Officer Screening Improvement Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 495112th CongressSee Something, Say Something Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 645112th CongressChild Protection Improvements Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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.
