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: united-automobile-aerospace-agricultural-implement-workers.
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.
LBR
70 filings
$26.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
70 filings
$26.5M on those filings
Retirement
RET
70 filings
$26.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
70 filings
$26.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$26.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
68 filings
$26M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
68 filings
$25.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
58 filings
$23.4M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
57 filings
$19.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
50 filings
$16.9M 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.
118th Congress
Small Bank Holding Company Relief Act of 2023
10 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act10 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1027113th CongressAdvanced Vehicle Technology Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 488113th CongressAdvanced Vehicle Technology Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1447118th CongressStriking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1157118th CongressMicroCap Small Business Investing Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 710118th CongressStriking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 737118th CongressNo Tax Breaks for Union Busting (NTBUB) Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered position: Legislative Representative
18 filingsthrough 2026
Douglas Scott MeyerUnited Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement WorkersCovered position: Deputy Director for Int'l. Affairs13 filingsthrough 2012
