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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-national-alliance-for-eye-and-vision-research.
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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.
VET
47 filings
$3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
43 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$231K 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
LOANS for Biomedical Research Act
3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2323118th CongressAccess to Genetic Counselor Services Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 8400118th CongressEarly Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2163118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for U.S. Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Multinational Species Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2024.1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 2786113th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2012
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
