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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
27 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20083 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: tenneco-inc.
BUD
23 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$820K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
18 filings
$590K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$500K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
11 filings
$380K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
1 filing
$20K 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
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 357110th CongressTen-in-Ten Fuel Economy Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7734116th CongressBuilding Businesses Back Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 6156112th CongressRussia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1550111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2346111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1135111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 247111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
3 filings
through 2008
Alexander Nathan HechtMl Strategies, LLC2 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick D MaraMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2008
