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.
Transportation
TRA
44 filings
$922K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
43 filings
$949K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: port-of-port-arthur.
MAR
28 filings
$630K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
20 filings
$370K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$162K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$118K on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$18K 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
Water Resources Development Act of 2013
1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 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.
