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: northern-trust-corporation.
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.
21 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$890K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$440K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
2 filings
$230K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$220K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$170K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$170K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$110K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
1 filing
$90K 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.
115th Congress
Pension, Endowment, and Mutual Fund Access to Banking Act
4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1484114th CongressFinancial Regulatory Improvement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
S. 424119th CongressRetirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4763118th CongressFinancial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1994116th CongressSetting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2155116th CongressStop Wall Street Looting Act3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2089119th CongressGenerating Retirement Ownership through Long-Term Holding2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2392119th CongressSTABLE Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2799118th CongressExpanding Access to Capital Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4766118th CongressClarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5741118th CongressUniform Treatment of Custodial Assets Act2 filingsthrough 2024
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.
