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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: pwc-us-group-llp-fka-pricewaterhousecoopers.
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.
18 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Torts
TOR
5 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$800K 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.
115th Congress
PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1129113th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 901113th CongressTax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 420113th CongressTax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2190118th CongressRECOUP Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1256116th CongressPCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1564113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 676113th CongressIdentity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 848113th CongressPCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3541118th CongressAccounting STEM Pursuit Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1705118th CongressSTEM Education in Accounting Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3625116th CongressPCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1570113th CongressTaxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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.
