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: ocean-conservancy.
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.
59 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Animals
ANI
33 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
23 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
17 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
12 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
12 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$440K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$671K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
2 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.
S. 1373115th CongressGulf States Protection and Restoration Coordination Act12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2748115th CongressSOS Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Carlyle ThorsenRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: General Counsel, Rep. Tom DeLay; Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Legislative Counsel, Rep. McCollum and LoBiondo2 filingsthrough 2016
William CookOcean Conservancy2 filingsthrough 2008
