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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-funeral-directors-assn.
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.
DIS
44 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
32 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
24 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
16 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$600K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$736K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$545K 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.
116th Congress
BRAVE Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1212115th CongressBRAVE Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2022115th CongressLATTS Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1109114th CongressSocial Security Lump-Sum Death Benefit Improvement and Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1338114th CongressDignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 250114th CongressFamilies of Fallen Servicemembers First Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4062117th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1406113th CongressWorking Families Flexibility Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1344119th CongressDennis and Lois Krisfalusy Act6 filingsthrough 2026
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.
