87 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 12, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.6M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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-spinal-association.
$40K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
62 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Insurance
INS
58 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
57 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
50 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
49 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Housing
HOU
33 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
33 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$2.4M 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
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.
10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 288113th CongressCHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 369113th CongressReducing Barriers to Veterans' Benefits Act10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 384113th CongressHomes for Heroes Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 894113th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 942113th CongressEnsuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 325113th CongressA bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program, and for other purposes.10 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.
