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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 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.
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-opinion-research-center-at-the-university-of-chicago.
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 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.
9 filings
through 2014
Elaine H ViningFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Intergovernmental Aff.8 filingsthrough 2018
Brian AltmanFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP7 filingsthrough 2011
