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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
7 filings
$200K on those filings
Insurance
INS
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6330110th CongressPrevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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: northwest-airlines-inc.
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$20K 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
Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6349110th CongressIncreasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6355110th CongressAir Service Improvement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6377110th CongressEnergy Markets Emergency Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3130110th CongressIncreasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3185110th CongressPrevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3268110th CongressStop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3536110th CongressAir Carriage of International Mail Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3604110th CongressEconomic Recovery Act, 20082 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.
Kate HullFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: ...Subcmte on Aging4 filingsthrough 2008
