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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: wayne-state-university-detroit-michigan.
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.
21 filings
$579K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
19 filings
$374K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
8 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$119K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$58K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$21K 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.
117th Congress
John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1148113th CongressMedicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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.
