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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
130 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
109 filings
$14M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 426 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202110 filingsthrough 2022
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Patrick J. LeahyD-Vermont
Bills: S. 984
3 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: ppg-industries-inc.
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.
BUD
80 filings
$12.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
76 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
70 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
56 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
55 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
49 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
33 filings
$6M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
31 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Banking
BAN
25 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
19 filings
$1.8M 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
IMAGINE Act
9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 403116th CongressIMAGINE Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20188 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20188 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1519115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20188 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2238117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4441114th CongressAviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4394118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.6 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.
Strategic Marketing Innovations
27 filingsthrough 2023
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Aide, Office of Natl. Drug Control Policy ; LA, LD, Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.24 filingsthrough 2026
Martin WhitmerWhitmer & Worrall, LLC24 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas WorrallWhitmer & Worrall, LLC24 filingsthrough 2019
William RiesPpg Industries, IncCovered position: Chief of Staff, Melissa Hart17 filingsthrough 2013
Tracy Lee LawlessK&L Gates, LLP15 filingsthrough 2026
Ann BedfordPpg Industries, Inc14 filingsthrough 2022
Corry MarshallWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: CoS - Congressman Bob Gibbs; Senior LA - Congresswoman Melissa Hart; SA - House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; SA - Congressman Bob Ney13 filingsthrough 2019
Robert HoutonWhitmer & Worrall, LLC12 filingsthrough 2016
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee11 filingsthrough 2017
