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: sigma-space-corporation.
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.
34 filings
$710K on those filings
Defense
DEF
27 filings
$450K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
11 filings
$270K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$50K 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
Providing for the appointment of Michael Lynton as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 7322111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3182111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2687114th CongressSecuring Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1317114th CongressLifetime Income Disclosure Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4660113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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.
