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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
76 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
73 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 228 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2410113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20147 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1244113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20147 filingsthrough 2014
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: washington-university-in-st-louis.
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.
66 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
66 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
58 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
46 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
33 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
33 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
13 filings
$455K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$280K 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.
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform 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.
10 filings
through 2025
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2014
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner6 filingsthrough 2014
Dorothy BondThe Russell Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2014
FITZHUGH ELDER ivThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Senator Bennett ; ; Clerk - Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcmt6 filingsthrough 2014
