28 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$760K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$760K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: port-of-tacoma.
$320K
fees reported
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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.
MAR
16 filings
$470K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$490K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$280K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$150K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$160K 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
Maritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 974113th CongressMOVE Freight Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1509113th CongressMaritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4310113th CongressReady to Work Act4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4745113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2438113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3080114th CongressTribal Employment and Jobs Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 601114th CongressACCTION Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5976111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6184111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4105114th CongressHorse Protection Amendments Act of 20152 filingsthrough 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.
