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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
38 filings
$830K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$220K on those filings
Insurance
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2667113th CongressAuthority for Mandate Delay Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1217113th CongressHousing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
Benjamin TurnerPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. John Delaney; Legislative Assistant/Legal Counsel, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Aide, Rep. Joe Courtney
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-multi-housing-council.
INS
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$20K 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
GSE Portfolio Risk Reduction Act of 2011
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5823111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1596112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
