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: u-s-chamber-of-commerce-global-intellectual-property-center.
$40K
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.
BUD
53 filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$230K 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.
113th Congress
Unlocking Technology Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3167113th CongressPlaying Fair on Trade and Innovation Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2426116th CongressCASE Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1273116th CongressCASE Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3326114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1890114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1631111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2267113th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 622113th CongressAnimal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Reauthorization Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
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.
