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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
93 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
30 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1115th CongressAn original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.8 filingsthrough 2018
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: sasol-chemicals-usa-llc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
13 filings
$800K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
11 filings
$790K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$810K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
5 filings
$360K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$290K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$100K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$100K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$90K 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.
110th Congress
Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1116th CongressStrengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3321114th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the volumetric excise tax credit for liquid fuel derived from natural gas through the Fischer-Tropsch process.6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1013111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2877111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 949111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
