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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$405K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
11 filings
$220K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3617111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1498111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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-new-haven.
LAW
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$150K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$70K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$45K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$40K 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.
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3606111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
