33 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Oct 14, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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: progress-energy.
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.
ENG
10 filings
$398K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
3 filings
$120K 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.
110th Congress
Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007
2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 493112th CongressSBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 539111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 672111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
