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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-northern-iowa.
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.
70 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
61 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
60 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
58 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
52 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
39 filings
$1.6M 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2354111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2187111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4122111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4223111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4333111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4557111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4958111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 11113th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1949113th CongressImproving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act7 filingsthrough 2014
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.
