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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$385K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2542111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4411111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Daniel MattoonMattoon & Associates, LLC10 filingsthrough 2011
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: nicor.
TRD
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$40K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2122111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6374110th CongressAmerican Shipping Reinvestment Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3288111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5503111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1031112th CongressAmerican Shipping Reinvestment Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3082112th CongressBiennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
