64 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2024 · latest filed Jan 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Agriculture
AGR
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2641110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3074110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20085 filingsthrough 2008
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: stanislaus-county-california.
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
61 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
59 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
55 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
44 filings
$970K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
29 filings
$610K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
25 filings
$530K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
17 filings
$530K 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.
110th Congress
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1745110th CongressDepartments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1751110th CongressEnergy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1789110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20085 filingsthrough 2008
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.
