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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
70 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 225 bill references, extracted from the 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: national-council-of-social-security-management-associations.
5 filings
$113K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$47K on those filings
Retirement
RET
2 filings
$47K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$46K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$24K 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.
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 362115th CongressFederal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2696113th CongressTo increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing any proposed conference.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 313113th CongressGSA Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4182115th CongressEQUALS Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3023114th CongressTo amend title 5, United States Code, to modify probationary periods with respect to positions within the competitive service and the Senior Executive Service, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2879113th CongressStop Government Abuse Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1347113th CongressConference Accountability Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1377113th CongressCitizen Empowerment Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1378113th CongressGovernment Employee Accountability Act6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
