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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
70 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
36 filings
$1.5M 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 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4130117th CongressAmerican Music Fairness Act of 20227 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 49111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 379111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Gordon TaylorOgr70 filingsthrough 2026
Dean AguillenOgrCovered position: Advr, Pelosi; Dir Intgvt Aff, Labor; LA, Sandlin70 filingsthrough 2026
Alissa CleesOgrCovered position: Scheduler, Senator Ben Nelson53 filingsthrough 2026
Stanton BullockOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Daniel Moynihan28 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: recording-industry-association-of-america-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2794119th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1367119th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6943118th CongressNo AI FRAUD Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1695115th CongressRegister of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Jerome MurrayOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Stacey Plaskett; Legislative Director, Rep. G.K. Butterfield; Associate Director, Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, Sen. Harry Reid; Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fattah; Staff Assistant, Rep. Chaka Fattah
