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
54 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
30 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2772114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
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-north-texas-system.
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
13 filings
$567K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$287K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$205K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$115K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$150K 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.
114th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016
3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
