64 filings from 5 registrants · 2015–2025 · latest filed Oct 9, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Michael MusanteMr. Michael MusanteCovered position: Consultant serving as registered lobbyist.27 filingsthrough 2021
Sandra SwirskiUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel to Sen. Al Simpson23 filingsthrough 2020
Ali BedfordUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern for Rep. Carlos Curbelo18 filingsthrough 2020
Virginia GentlesSchool Choice Solutions, LLCCovered position: House Budget Committee professional staff, 1998-2000; Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary at U.S. Department of Education, 2007-08.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: american-federation-for-children.
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.
BUD
25 filings
$359K on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
25 filings
$359K 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.
119th Congress
Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
6 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5199115th CongressEducation Savings Accounts for Military Families Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1294115th CongressNative American Education Opportunity Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2517115th CongressMilitary Education Savings Account Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
S. 2711114th CongressNative American Education Opportunity Act1 filingthrough 2016
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.
15 filingsthrough 2018
Michael MchughUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Gordon Smith13 filingsthrough 2020
John Schilling2020 Strategies LLC12 filingsthrough 2025
Gregory BrockGregory Brock4 filingsthrough 2025
Emily JoyUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern to Sen. Sherrod Brown4 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
