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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Small Business
SMB
58 filings
$1.7M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 32 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2016
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: nfib-the-voice-of-free-enterprise-inc.
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.
116th Congress
Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2019
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2122113th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2542113th CongressRegulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3367113th CongressTo amend section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay the application of the health insurance provider annual fee until 2016 and to provide a process to return to consumers any amounts attributable to the expected application of the annual fee to 2014 or 2015.4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1029113th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1370112th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1493113th CongressSunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
S. 399113th CongressAmerican Job Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1880112th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 246115th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4620115th CongressProtecting Families and Small Businesses Act of 20172 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.
Adam TempleNfib, the Voice of Free Enterprise, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Jim DeMint, Deputy Communications Director (2005-2007)
12 filingsthrough 2026
Susan EckerlyNfib, the Voice of Free Enterprise, Inc.Covered position: Leg Director, Profession Staff, Sen. Leg. Officer10 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
