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.
Transportation
TRA
70 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$60K 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 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1926110th CongressNational Infrastructure Bank Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20196 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: rural-states-fed-transp-policy-development-group.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Build America Bonds Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2322113th CongressMAP-21 Reauthorization Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20094 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 308111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 309111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
