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: vinyl-institute.
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.
AGR
32 filings
$3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
27 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
26 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$680K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$580K on those filings
Housing
HOU
10 filings
$605K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
8 filings
$330K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
2 filings
$170K 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.
4 filings
through 2018
S. 3121115th CongressWater Infrastructure Transparency Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1262111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1616113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1392113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5820111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 1395110th CongressExpressing concern over the current Federal policy that allows the exportation of toxic electronic waste to developing Nations, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should join other developed Nations and ban the exportation of toxic electronic waste to developing Nations.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2663110th CongressCPSC Reform Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3500110th CongressWater Infrastructure Financing Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3617110th CongressWater Infrastructure Financing Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 663110th CongressA bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the statutory designation of beneficiaries of the $100,000 death gratuity under section 1477 of title 10, United States Code, and to permit members of the Armed Forces to designate in writing their beneficiaries of choice in the event of their death while serving on active duty.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2074113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
Stephen ReplogleCapitol Consulting Group LLC (DC)Covered position: Legislative Affairs Advisor, Dept of Commerce; Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Dept of Commerce; Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Republican Conference
8 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
