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: alliance-for-excellent-education.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
5 filings
$37K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$39K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$13K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
1 filing
$8K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$6K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$6K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$6K 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.
118th Congress
A Stronger Workforce for America Act
6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3952118th CongressFast Track To and Through College Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4942118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3040114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20176 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3006111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1362111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2343115th CongressUnited States Library Trust Fund Act5 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5926114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20175 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1569111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
19 filings
through 2026
Jessica CardichonAlliance for Excellent EducationCovered position: Education Counsel, Senator Bernard Sanders18 filingsthrough 2016
Jennifer CastagnaEducationcounsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Arlen Specter14 filingsthrough 2018
Scott PalmerEducationcounsel LLCCovered position: Sched C, Dept of Justice, White House, Dept of Ed11 filingsthrough 2016
FRED JONES jrAlliance for Excellent Education11 filingsthrough 2013
Robert WiseAlliance for Excellent Education8 filingsthrough 2010
Nikki MckinneyAlliance for Excellent Education7 filingsthrough 2018
Jamie FasteauAlliance for Excellent Education7 filingsthrough 2009
Sarah RittlingEducationcounsel LLCCovered position: Senate HELP Committee, Counsel for Senator AlexanderSenate HELP Committee, Professional Staff MemberCongressman Michael N. Castle, Counsel for Ed & WorkforceCongressman Michael N. Castle, Legislative AssistantCongressman Chris Shays, Legislative AssistantCongressman Chris Shays, Temporary Employee5 filingsthrough 2013
Lisette PartelowAlliance for Excellent Education5 filingsthrough 2009
