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: north-american-die-casting-association.
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.
ENG
10 filings
$315K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$250K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$205K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$25K 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.
110th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2942110th CongressCurrency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2067112th CongressHurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5663112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on mixtures of certain types of Triazin.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2378111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3183111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 800110th CongressEmployee Free Choice Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1922110th CongressTSA Acquisition Reform Act of 20072 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.
Diana L WatermanParagon Government Relations
8 filingsthrough 2010
Stephanie SalmonParagon Government Relations8 filingsthrough 2010
Timothy F PowersArtemis Strategies7 filingsthrough 2012
