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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Automotive Industry
AUT
45 filings
$430K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
21 filings
$260K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3763114th CongressSurface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.4 filingsthrough 2018
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: tire-industry-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.
ENG
18 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$100K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
Small Business
SMB
3 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
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1647114th CongressDeveloping a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1741114th CongressTESR Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5141111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7191115th CongressBipartisan Budget and Appropriations Reform Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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: Chief of Staff to Rep. Albert Wynn (1997-2008)Rep. Albert Wynn, Leg. Assistant (1995-1997)
4 filingsthrough 2010
Charles F. BassGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman ('97-'07) & ('11-'13)1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
