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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$220K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2165111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2195111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3125111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 649111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filings
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: utilities-telecom-council.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2010
H.R. 5026111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 946111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4860111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5696111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3480111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3487111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3538111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3610111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
