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: san-diego-unified-port-district.
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.
TRA
43 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$650K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$350K on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$340K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
10 filings
$290K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
2 filings
$40K 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.
S. 1417116th CongressMaritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2838112th CongressCoast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1950112th CongressCommercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 9026118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Alcalde & Fay
13 filingsthrough 2013
Kevin FayAlcalde & Fay13 filingsthrough 2013
Anne CullatherAlcalde & Fay13 filingsthrough 2013
Laura Morgan-KesslerCarpi & Clay, Inc11 filingsthrough 2020
Zachary ComminsCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Alex Padilla; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Donald Norcross; Legislative Director, Rep. Harley Rouda; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eric Swalwell6 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas WaltersThomas Walters & Associates, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
DONALD WARREN GILCHREST jrThomas Walters & Associates, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Scott McgeeThomas Walters & Associates, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Channon Clements HannaCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation4 filingsthrough 2020
HAROLD JENNINGS CREEL jrAlcalde & FayCovered position: SrCnsl/MerMarSenSubCom;Chair,Comm/FMC3 filingsthrough 2010
Rj LyerlyCarpi & Clay, Inc2 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 5 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
