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
$200K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$200K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 37 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-teachers-of-mathematics.
20 filings
$80K 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.
112th Congress
Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1709111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3040114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3084114th CongressAmerican Innovation and Competitiveness Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
