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
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2947111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1742110th CongressFire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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: tyco-international-management-company-formerly-tyco-intl-us.
HOM
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$50K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3791111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5470111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3059111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3267111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1684110th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2829110th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
