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.
Retirement
RET
15 filings
$150K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$40K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the 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: principal-life-insurance-company.
spend on filings that named this issue
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2989111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3936111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4126111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4742111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 401111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3185110th Congress401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3765110th CongressDefined Contribution Plan Fee Transparency Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1974110th CongressPension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2473110th CongressDefined Contribution Fee Disclosure Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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.
