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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
116 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
64 filings
$3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 147 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20207 filingsthrough 2020
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-oregon.
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.
57 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
44 filings
$2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
27 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
25 filings
$830K on those filings
Defense
DEF
18 filings
$310K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$480K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$210K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$60K 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
Innovation Act
7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4754119th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20266 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2431119th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20266 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20256 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8998118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6117th CongressAmerican Dream and Promise Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20236 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4365118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2605118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20245 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8262117th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20235 filingsthrough 2022
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.
