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: pet-industry-joint-advisory-council.
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.
5 filings
$10K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$60K 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. 417116th CongressTo amend title 18, United States Code, to establish measures to combat invasive lionfish, and for other purposes.12 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 487116th CongressTransporting Livestock Across America Safely Act12 filingsthrough 2020
S. 502116th CongressState, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act12 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2808116th CongressChild and Animal Abuse Detection and Reporting Act11 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1429116th Congress21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1903116th CongressAdvancing Emergency Preparedness Through One Health Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 94118th CongressAmerican Sovereignty and Species Protection Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1016117th CongressAnimal Cruelty Enforcement Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1022117th CongressPAWS Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
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.
