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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
64 filings
$2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
48 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 80 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1146113th CongressConsistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 20137 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: sonosite-a-subsidiary-of-fujifilm-formerly-sonosite-inc.
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$690K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
18 filings
$730K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$30K 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.
115th Congress
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1557115th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 822118th CongressModification to Department of Defense Travel Authorities for Abortion-Related Expenses Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7084117th CongressPATCH Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3983117th CongressPATCH Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6116th CongressAmerican Dream and Promise Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3652111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 583110th CongressConsistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2127118th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 7667117th CongressFood and Drug Amendments of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4348117th CongressFDASLA Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
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.
