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: texas-a-m-research-foundation.
fees reported
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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.
12 filings
$760K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
11 filings
$730K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$660K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$440K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$220K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$60K 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
Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3607112th CongressA bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3116112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 2641111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2997111th 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.
through 2012
WALTER BYRON SMITH jrThe Mallard Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Nichole AldapeMeyers and Associates5 filingsthrough 2008
FRANCIS BOYD jrMeyers and Associates2 filingsthrough 2008
