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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
67 filings
$710K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
67 filings
$690K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4820118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4821118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
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: southeast-michigan-council-of-governments-semcog.
61 filings
$630K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
20 filings
$200K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
8 filings
$120K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Housing
HOU
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 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.
118th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2437118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2605118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1092119th CongressWIPPES Act4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2651119th CongressROAD to Housing Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6929118th CongressAffordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3565118th CongressAffordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2809114th CongressGreat Lakes Water Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Michael Dunn SniderDykema Gossett PLLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Congressman Shri Thanedar6 filingsthrough 2026
Brian HowardDykema Gossett PLLCCovered position: Legislative Clerk, House Committee on Energy and Committee4 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
