34 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Nov 2, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$225K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$225K
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: prime-policy-group.
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.
TAX
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
4 filings
$10K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$10K 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.
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3961111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4851111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1681111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1734111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
