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-cattle-feeders-association.
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.
TRD
71 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
71 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
69 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
60 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Animals
ANI
57 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
50 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
45 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
40 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
26 filings
$1M 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.
117th Congress
I–70 Detour Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8489117th CongressGreater Access to Telehealth Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4647117th CongressSafeguarding Privacy in Your Car Act of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3936118th CongressTax Cuts for Working Families Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3937118th CongressSmall Business Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 541118th CongressBALE Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1108118th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1706118th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7606117th CongressLower Food and Fuel Costs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1820114th CongressTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2025
Elliott A PetersonThe Peterson Group Inc11 filingsthrough 2025
