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.
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-carolina-state-university.
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.
68 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
67 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
67 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
66 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
59 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
56 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
51 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
48 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
38 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
18 filings
$660K 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.
116th Congress
NCAA Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 275114th CongressTo establish a commission to identify and examine issues of national concern related to the conduct of intercollegiate athletics, to make recommendations for the resolution of the issues, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5325113th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Workforce Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5973113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
