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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
68 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-luis-obispo-county-ca.
AGR
66 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
36 filings
$693K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
28 filings
$580K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$400K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
17 filings
$340K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
14 filings
$280K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$235K on those filings
Housing
HOU
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
9 filings
$155K on those filings
Animals
ANI
4 filings
$80K 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.
H.R. 6157116th CongressTransparency for Student Veterans Act4 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2975116th CongressStop the Spread of Invasive Mussels Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2976116th CongressAdvancing Support for Working Families Act4 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3023116th CongressPACT Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3073116th CongressSANTA Act4 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3158116th CongressDiversify Act4 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5003115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate advance refunding bonds.3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered positions · 3 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
