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.
Animals
ANI
48 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 37 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1568116th CongressSAVE Right Whales Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1456115th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
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-parks-resorts.
8 filings
$360K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
2 filings
$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.
115th Congress
Orca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4487117th CongressSAVE North Atlantic Right Whales Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 737116th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 788116th CongressSustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2453116th CongressSAVE Right Whales Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 877116th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4019114th CongressOrca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4831116th CongressNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation Reauthorization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1139116th CongressNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation Reauthorization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3051116th CongressAmerica's Conservation Enhancement Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5248115th CongressSustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
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.
4 filingsthrough 2020
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2016
Laura Morgan-KesslerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Dianne Feinstein2 filingsthrough 2018
John DowdVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Adv, Sen Pres Pro Tempore Murray; Chief of Staff(COS),Sen Pres Pro Tempore Leahy; COS, Sen Pres Pro Tempore Emeritus Leahy; COS, Sen Pres Pro Tempore Leahy;COS, Sen Leahy;Leg Dir, Sen Leahy *No lobby activity or contact made to United States Senate1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
