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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
42 filings
$840K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$625K on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1894115th CongressA bill to exempt Puerto Rico from the coastwise laws of the United States (commonly known as the "Jones Act").3 filingsthrough 2018
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: philadelphia-shipyard-development-corporation.
TRA
7 filings
$130K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$105K 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.
116th Congress
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2266115th CongressMaking additional supplemental appropriations for disaster relief requirements for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1372114th CongressAmerican Crude Oil Export Equality Act2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3800111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3260110th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20161 filingthrough 2015
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.
