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: union-of-concerned-scientists.
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.
ENV
15 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$693K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$989K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
8 filings
$793K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$574K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$440K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$303K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$10K 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.
115th Congress
HONEST Act
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3449119th CongressStronger Communities through Better Transit Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2296115th CongressGOOD Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3455119th CongressMoving Transit Forward Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.J.Res. 59115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act".3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1004115th CongressRegulatory Integrity Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1009115th CongressOIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 21115th CongressMidnight Rules Relief Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 26115th CongressRegulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Brendan BellThe Union of Concerned Scientists
13 filingsthrough 2011
Shervin BoloorianThe Union of Concerned Scientists10 filingsthrough 2009
Eli HopsonThe Union of Concerned Scientists8 filingsthrough 2008
Stephen YoungThe Union of Concerned Scientists8 filingsthrough 2008
Lexi ShultzThe Union of Concerned Scientists8 filingsthrough 2008
