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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 61 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2020
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: tuberous-sclerosis-alliance.
MED
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
26 filings
$780K 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.
116th Congress
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7614116th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
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.
