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: railway-supply-institute-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
4 filings
$170K 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.
119th Congress
Freight RAILCAR Act of 2025
6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2515119th CongressAmerican Tank Car Modernization Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4361119th CongressSTOP China Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1711119th CongressSTOP China Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7902117th CongressFreight RAILCAR Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2758119th CongressFreight RAILCAR Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7662119th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3903119th CongressRailway Safety Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8414119th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
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.
