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: orange-county-transportation-authority.
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.
TAX
64 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
49 filings
$3M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
42 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$180K 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.
118th Congress
Choices for Stranded Passengers Act of 2023
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1195110th CongressSAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5102110th CongressON TIME Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6003110th CongressPassenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2766112th CongressBreaking Down Barriers Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
11 filingsthrough 2010
Robert GainesSmith GarsonCovered position: Principal11 filingsthrough 2010
