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: people-for-the-american-way.
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.
CON
46 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
35 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Religion
REL
35 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
32 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
32 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
29 filings
$1M on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
28 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
27 filings
$970K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
27 filings
$950K 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
Supreme Court Ethics Act.
10 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3096118th CongressSupreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
S. 359118th CongressSupreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
H.J.Res. 2116th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.9 filingsthrough 2020
H.J.Res. 22114th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.9 filingsthrough 2016
S.J.Res. 5114th CongressA joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1281110th CongressDeceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4026110th CongressVoter Access Protection Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5038110th CongressCaging Prohibition Act of 20089 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1257110th CongressDistrict of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1843110th CongressFair Pay Restoration Act9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2305110th CongressCaging Prohibition Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
S. 453110th CongressDeceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 20079 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Tanya Clay HousePeople for the American Way
10 filingsthrough 2009
Michele Lawrence JawandoPeople for the American Way10 filingsthrough 2009
Mark GlazeThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legis. Asst., Rep. David Skaggs6 filingsthrough 2011
