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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
66 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
54 filings
$970K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 65 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1667114th Congress21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 585114th CongressTo amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements.8 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-endangered-species-act-reform-coalition.
ECN
21 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$140K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
6 filings
$160K 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
Common Sense in Species Protection Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 292114th Congress21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 293114th CongressA bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 736114th CongressState, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 855114th CongressEndangered Species Management Self-Determination Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2098114th CongressCommon Sense in Species Protection Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2109114th CongressEndangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2352114th CongressState, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1142114th CongressNative Species Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3162114th CongressEndangered Species Recovery Transparency Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2530110th CongressEndangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 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.
