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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
20 filings
$490K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
19 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Constitution
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 840117th CongressLitigation Funding Transparency Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 985115th CongressFairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
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: us-chamber-of-commerce-institute-for-legal-reform.
CON
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$130K 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
Litigation Funding Transparency Act of 2021
7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1109119th CongressLitigation Transparency Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 471116th CongressLitigation Funding Transparency Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1927114th CongressFairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 9922118th CongressLitigation Transparency Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4317116th CongressSAFE TO WORK Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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.
