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.
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$260K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$190K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 61 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
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: wal-mart-701-8th-street-nw-200-washington-dc-20001.
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$160K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
2 filings
$60K 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.
5 filings
through 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3249111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1152111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1478111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3934110th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2045110th CongressCPSC Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2372110th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20074 filingsthrough 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.
