19 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jun 30, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$320K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: town-of-huntersville.
$150K
fees reported
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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.
TRD
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$20K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 3293111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1298111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1432111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1436111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3606111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3110111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3617111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
