A filing reports one spending figure covering every issue
it lobbied on — the law doesn't break spend out by issue. So a filing that
lobbied on three issues has its full spend counted under all three. These
per-issue totals therefore overlap and don't sum to a grand total;
read each as "money behind filings that touched this issue." "Spend" =
reported income (fees) plus in-house lobbying expenses.
Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.
Issue areas are the filers' own LDA general-issue codes. Money fields are
self-reported and often rounded or left blank.