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: sanofi-aventis-u-s-inc.
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.
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$605K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$300K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$226K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$100K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
4 filings
$195K on those filings
Animals
ANI
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 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 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.
4 filings
through 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1919113th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590112th CongressIndonesian Family Refugee Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 1884112th CongressSchool Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 1439110th CongressExpressing support for designation of the month of September 2009 as "National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month" and supporting efforts to educate the public about atrial fibrillation.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3204113th CongressDrug Quality and Security Act1 filingthrough 2013
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 1427111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Herbert Allen AilsworthHerbert Allen "Mike" Ailsworth6 filingsthrough 2010
