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.
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-urban-league.
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.
HOU
37 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
25 filings
$735K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$215K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
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.
H.R. 1340113th CongressUrban Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 655113th CongressUrban Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20096 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 683112th CongressUrban Jobs Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1356113th CongressWorkforce Investment Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 47111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 4737111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 267111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20094 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.
