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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
70 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
60 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 502 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 299115th CongressAgency Accountability Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1027116th CongressFairness for Every Driver Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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: public-power-council.
48 filings
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
39 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
18 filings
$714K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$117K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$117K 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
Save the Internet Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1689116th CongressClimate Change Resiliency Fund for America Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 680116th CongressSecuring Energy Infrastructure Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 9116th CongressClimate Action Now Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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.
