25 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2016 · latest filed Oct 17, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$310K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$310K
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.
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.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
17 filings
$310K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$110K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: trufund-financial-services-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3301112th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5302111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3677111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6020113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1371113th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 3301113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
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 2023.1 filingthrough 2013
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.
