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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
64 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 138 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1065118th CongressOutdoors for All Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 448118th CongressOutdoors for All Act9 filingsthrough 2024
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-trust-for-public-land.
TAX
6 filings
$90K 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
Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1678117th CongressParks, Jobs, and Equity Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 803117th CongressProtecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 872117th CongressOne Subject at a Time Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 502115th CongressLand and Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization and Fairness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 569115th CongressLand and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 896115th CongressA bill to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 405114th CongressBipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2153118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Land Acquisition for fiscal year 2024.7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2258117th CongressParks, Jobs, and Equity Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3195116th CongressLand and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1081116th CongressLand and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act7 filingsthrough 2020
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.
