116 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Oct 10, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
87 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
55 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 42 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4372117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
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: university-of-maine.
$405K
fees reported
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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.
52 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
36 filings
$800K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
35 filings
$800K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
32 filings
$610K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
31 filings
$580K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$430K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
14 filings
$420K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$95K on those filings
Housing
HOU
8 filings
$130K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$220K 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.
117th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4549117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4599117th CongressSUPER Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2399117th CongressDefense Community Teacher Support Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2599117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2605117th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6072115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 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.
Alexander PorteousGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
