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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
46 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
25 filings
$405K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1212115th CongressBRAVE Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2436119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat distributions from health savings accounts for funeral expenses of the account beneficiary as qualified distributions.6 filingsthrough 2026
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-association.
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.
CHM
24 filings
$390K on those filings
Veterans
VET
20 filings
$600K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$30K 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.
119th Congress
Consensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 2025
6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1270119th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1109114th CongressSocial Security Lump-Sum Death Benefit Improvement and Modernization Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1338114th CongressDignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 250114th CongressFamilies of Fallen Servicemembers First Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4275118th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4062117th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 497116th CongressBRAVE Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1911114th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase certain veteran funeral benefits.5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2191118th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1835116th CongressConsensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5212114th CongressBereaved Consumer's Bill of Rights Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
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.
WILLIAM STEVE SOUTHERLAND iiCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: William Steve Southerland, II served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.7 filingsthrough 2017
