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: ust-public-affairs-inc.
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.
6 filings
$160K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$20K 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.
110th Congress
PACT Act
21 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2932110th CongressTo amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.16 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5689110th CongressSmuggled Tobacco Prevention Act of 200813 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.11 filingsthrough 2008
S. 625110th CongressFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6791110th CongressNational Cancer Fund Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6971110th CongressPublic Service Scholarship Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1834110th CongressHEALTH Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 6963110th CongressSCHIP Plus Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
