50 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Feb 1, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$610K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$610K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: schott-north-america.
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.
7 filings
$100K 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.
113th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014
3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4435113th CongressHoward P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.Con.Res. 96113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2015 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2016 through 2024.2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2289113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20152 filingsthrough 2014
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.
