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.
Small Business
SMB
27 filings
$660K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
27 filings
$660K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 31 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1105113th CongressSmall Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1106113th CongressSmall Business Investment Company Modernization Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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: small-business-investor-alliance-formerly-nasbic.
FIN
22 filings
$520K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 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
Next Steps for Credit Availability Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 432114th CongressSBIC Advisers Relief Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3738111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3740111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3818111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3854111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4849111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3127111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1023114th CongressSmall Business Investment Company Capital Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 552114th CongressSmall Business Investment Capital Company Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4200113th CongressSBIC Advisers Relief Act of 20144 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.
