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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
52 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
41 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 42 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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: policylink.
31 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
19 filings
$630K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
14 filings
$510K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$230K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$80K 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.
113th Congress
Strengthening America's Schools Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2195113th CongressPromise Neighborhoods Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6084112th CongressTEACH Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
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.
