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: the-fertilizer-institute.
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.
HOM
59 filings
$19.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
48 filings
$15.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
39 filings
$12.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
26 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
17 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
17 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
16 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$140K 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.
118th Congress
No Clearances for Terrorist Sympathizers Act of 2024
9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1009113th CongressChemical Safety Improvement Act9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3894117th CongressAdvancing Cybersecurity Through Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 216116th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.J.Res. 27118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Revised Definition of 'Waters of the United States'".7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8069118th CongressStrengthening the Medical Examiner and Coroner System Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 41116th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2531116th CongressNational Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3164116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3405116th CongressDIPLOMA Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 520115th CongressNational Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 145115th CongressNational Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4007113th CongressProtecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
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.
