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: pennsylvania-farm-bureau.
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.
CAW
58 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
56 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
54 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
48 filings
$890K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
41 filings
$850K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
30 filings
$620K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
30 filings
$460K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
29 filings
$540K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
28 filings
$400K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
26 filings
$440K 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. 1462118th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1495118th CongressPrecision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 683118th CongressPASS Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 168118th CongressPASS Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 269118th CongressProtect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 549118th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 719118th CongressPrecision Agriculture Loan Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 720118th CongressPRECISE Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 747118th CongressRelief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 832116th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act8 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.
