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: oath-inc-and-various-subsidiaries.
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.
CSP
45 filings
$25.1M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
43 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
34 filings
$21.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
25 filings
$16.3M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
14 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
10 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
8 filings
$4.6M 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.
114th Congress
Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015
H.R. 805114th CongressDOTCOM Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1551114th CongressDOTCOM Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1193113th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20137 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.
18 filings
through 2020
April BoydOath Inc. and Various SubsidiariesCovered position: Press Officer, Department of Energy16 filingsthrough 2016
David HantmanOath Inc. and Various Subsidiaries14 filingsthrough 2012
Leslie DunlapOath Inc. and Various Subsidiaries12 filingsthrough 2012
Laura PeedOath Inc. and Various Subsidiaries7 filingsthrough 2011
Timothy Donald LynchOath Inc. and Various SubsidiariesCovered position: Counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dem Staff; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dem Staff; Deputy General Counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dem Staff4 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth BankerOath Inc. and Various Subsidiaries4 filingsthrough 2008
James W HedlundOath Inc. and Various Subsidiaries3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
