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.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
69 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6822118th CongressNational Archives and Records Administration Modernization Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3002112th CongressA bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Anisic Aldehyde.6 filingsthrough 2012
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB70 filingsthrough 2026
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-states-anti-doping-agency.
9 filings
$360K 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.
112th Congress
ROADS SAFE Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 4032112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3002111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6822117th CongressFor the relief of Vitaly Stepanov and Yuliya Stepanova.3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2012113th CongressDesigner Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3181110th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4771113th CongressDesigner Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20161 filingthrough 2015
S. 4032113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 3181111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2829110th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
6 filings
through 2015
Joseph NickersonAcg Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2023
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen4 filingsthrough 2026
