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: sunoco-inc.
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.
ENV
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
22 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
7 filings
$1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$850K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$425K 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.
H.R. 1900113th CongressNatural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 523112th CongressAmerican Fuel Protection Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 228112th CongressDefending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 231112th CongressEPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 511112th CongressBoutique Fuel Reduction Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2401112th CongressTransparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3548112th CongressNorth American Energy Access Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20124 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.
