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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: trustees-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania.
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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.
60 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
45 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
43 filings
$6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
39 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
18 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
11 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$896K 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.
H.R. 4392115th CongressTo provide that the provision of the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs final regulation relating to changes in the payment amount for certain drugs and biologicals purchased under the 340B drug discount program shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 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.
3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin F KellyTrustees of the University of PennsylvaniaCovered position: Office of Senator Barbara Mikulski2 filingsthrough 2008
Amanda BartosheskyTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania2 filingsthrough 2008
Ralph MullerTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania1 filingthrough 2008
Steve FluhartyTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
