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-public-interest-research-group.
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
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
32 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
30 filings
$795K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
28 filings
$669K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
24 filings
$620K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
19 filings
$718K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
16 filings
$980K 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. 880113th CongressWall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act11 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 990113th CongressSAFE Lending Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 205113th CongressResponsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 238113th CongressFederal Reserve Modernization Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 450113th CongressFinancial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
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.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
21 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew WellingtonU.S. Public Interest Research Group18 filingsthrough 2023
Blair BowieU.S. Public Interest Research GroupCovered position: Advocate12 filingsthrough 2013
Gary KalmanU.S. Public Interest Research Group12 filingsthrough 2012
Elizabeth HitchcockU.S. Public Interest Research Group10 filingsthrough 2011
Elise OrlickU.S. Public Interest Research Group9 filingsthrough 2017
Emma BoorboorU.S. Public Interest Research Group9 filingsthrough 2016
Nasima HossainU.S. Public Interest Research GroupCovered position: Advocate9 filingsthrough 2013
Robert C JonesAlston & Bird LLP8 filingsthrough 2017
RICHARD T WILLIAMS jrU.S. Public Interest Research Group8 filingsthrough 2012
LARRY C MCNEELY iiU.S. Public Interest Research Group8 filingsthrough 2011
John KriegerU.S. Public Interest Research Group8 filingsthrough 2010
Isaac BowersU.S. Public Interest Research Group7 filingsthrough 2025
