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: southeast-milk-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
36 filings
$350K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
24 filings
$230K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
20 filings
$470K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
20 filings
$470K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$90K 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
Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 10113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 10114th CongressAnti-Semitism Awareness Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2015
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20123 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.
