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.
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-south-florida.
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.
40 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
36 filings
$987K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
33 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
27 filings
$720K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$630K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
24 filings
$742K on those filings
Veterans
VET
9 filings
$202K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$400K 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
United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1619114th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2026
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.
