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: oregon-state-university.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
91 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
59 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
56 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
51 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
48 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
43 filings
$2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
35 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
30 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
26 filings
$1.3M 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.
H.R. 5715110th CongressEnsuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4394118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Cascade Associates
Covered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Ted Stevens
10 filingsthrough 2010
Heather BeneOregon State UniversityCovered position: Interim Federal Relations Director4 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
