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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: the-union-of-concerned-scientists.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $3.2M in expenses.
ENG · 1 client
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
8 filings
$999K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
8 filings
$793K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
7 filings
$949K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
7 filings
$653K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
4 filings
$569K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
4 filings
$440K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
3 filings
$303K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
1 filing
$80K 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 money 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.
Eli Hopson8 filings1 client · through 2008
Stephen Young8 filings1 client · through 2008
Lexi Shultz8 filings1 client · through 2008
Karly Kaufman6 filings1 client · through 2008
Sarah Pendergast2 filings1 client · through 2017
Ben Larson2 filings1 client · through 2008
Jane Rissler2 filings1 client · through 2008
Michelle Robinson2 filings1 client · through 2008
Kevin Knobloch2 filings1 client · through 2008
Robert Nelson2 filings1 client · through 2008
Jennifer Palembas2 filings1 client · through 2008
David Friedman2 filings1 client · through 2008
Phyllis Windle2 filings1 client · through 2008
Alden Meyer2 filings1 client · through 2008
Michael Halpern2 filings1 client · through 2008
Francesca Grifo2 filings1 client · through 2008
Edwin Lyman2 filings1 client · through 2008
Lena Moffitt2 filings1 client · through 2008
Margaret G Mellon2 filings1 client · through 2008
David Allen Lochbaum2 filings1 client · through 2008
Daniel Brito1 filing1 client · through 2015
Justin Tatham1 filing1 client · through 2012
Douglas Harlan Boucher1 filing1 client · through 2008
