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-waste-recycling-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
WAS
46 filings
$687K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
35 filings
$348K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
30 filings
$285K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$321K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$20K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
8 filings
$118K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
7 filings
$203K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$80K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
6 filings
$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.
117th Congress
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4040118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1189118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1194118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3185117th CongressSave Local Business Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1636117th CongressSave Local Business Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3441115th CongressSave Local Business Act7 filingsthrough 2018
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.
6 filings
through 2021
ALEXANDER NICHOLAS VOGEL srThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist6 filingsthrough 2021
David BidermanNational Waste & Recycling Association5 filingsthrough 2015
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff HouseMember Office (Braley, Barrow)1 filingthrough 2026
Courtney CanoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 3 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
