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-trustees-of-purdue-university.
The Trustees of Purdue University — Receipts Report
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
94 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
84 filings
$5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
70 filings
$4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
33 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
27 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
12 filings
$580K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
12 filings
$365K 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.
115th Congress
ISA Act of 2017
19 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3432114th CongressInvesting in Student Success Act of 201519 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.17 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.17 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2981113th CongressTRANSFER Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201614 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2114116th CongressISA Student Protection Act of 201912 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2186114th CongressInvesting in Student Success Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201312 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 201711 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 201611 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.
Matthew SommerDeborah Hohlt
10 filingsthrough 2021
Timothy SandersThe Trustees of Purdue University3 filingsthrough 2013
Terry StruehThe Trustees of Purdue University1 filingthrough 2008
