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.
Tobacco
TOB
11 filings
$110K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1108110th CongressFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act4 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-center-for-tobacco-free-kids-action-fund.
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
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.
110th Congress
Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 625110th CongressFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.Res. 98112th CongressExpressing the Sense of the House of Representatives that the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration should give the greatest weight in making critical policy decisions to readily available hard science data, including evidence from the natural sciences, physical sciences, and computing sciences.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2045110th CongressCPSC Reform Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2663110th CongressCPSC Reform Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1676111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1147111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
