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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
64 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Housing
HOU
55 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 56 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 848118th CongressTo designate a peak in the State of Nevada as Maude Frazier Mountain, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2024
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: window-and-door-manufacturers-association.
51 filings
$2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
20 filings
$851K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
18 filings
$825K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
16 filings
$720K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
16 filings
$636K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
12 filings
$612K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
11 filings
$585K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$330K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$327K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
1 filing
$56K 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.
115th Congress
Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 469115th CongressCongressional Article I Powers Strengthening Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 119115th CongressSunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 21115th CongressRegulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 385115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1273114th CongressEnergy Savings and Building Efficiency Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 185114th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 712114th CongressSunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 484113th CongressLead Exposure Reduction Amendments Act of 20138 filingsthrough 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.
Benjamin David GannSmithbucklin Corporation
12 filingsthrough 2014
Michael PierceSmithbucklin Corporation8 filingsthrough 2026
John CrosbySmithbucklin Corporation8 filingsthrough 2026
Jeremy StineSmithbucklin Corporation6 filingsthrough 2011
