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-states-telecom-assn.
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.
CPT
40 filings
$30.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$43.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
23 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
9 filings
$14.5M 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
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2013
9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1110111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1258111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 251111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 30111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 562111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1108118th CongressTo amend the Communications Act of 1934 to extend the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to grant a license or construction permit through a system of competitive bidding.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1123118th CongressUnderstanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1178118th CongressBroadband SALE Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1241118th CongressBroadband Incentives for Communities Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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.
30 filings
through 2016
Paul RaakUnited States Telecom Assn26 filingsthrough 2026
Alan J RothUnited States Telecom AssnCovered position: St.Dir./C.Cnsl.H.E&C 93-7;C.Cnsl.92;Cnsl:85-9226 filingsthrough 2016
Hawley StantonUnited States Telecom AssnCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Rep. Robert E. Latta (2014-2017)25 filingsthrough 2023
