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: welch-allyn.
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.
35 filings
$3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
33 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
30 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$549K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$380K 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.
112th Congress
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of 80 mm or less in diameter.
H.R. 4872113th CongressEnding Special Mail Privileges for Congress Act of 201410 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 523113th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3187113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1919113th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act7 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1693110th CongressWired for Health Care Quality Act5 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.
