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.
Deirdre StachMercury Public Affairs, LLC19 filingsthrough 2026
Stacey StoutAmerican Public Education, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant/Legislative Counsel, Senator Don Nickles, U.S. Senate - 2001-200519 filingsthrough 2026
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLC18 filingsthrough 2026
Kathleen M McauliffeHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Associate Counsel, Office of House Minority Leader (contd.)5 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 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-public-education-inc.
$160K
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.
18 filings
$750K on those filings
Defense
DEF
18 filings
$750K 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.
117th Congress
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2604117th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5702118th CongressExpanding Access for Online Veteran Students Act2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8580118th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9747118th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4677118th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
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.
W. Michael HouseHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)
5 filingsthrough 2009
Toby MoffettMercury Public Affairs, LLC4 filingsthrough 2023
Stephanie GoldHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)3 filingsthrough 2008
Susan AspeyAmerican Public Education, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Press Secretary/Press Secretary, US Department of Education (August 2002 - March 2006; Press Secretary and Communications Director, US Department of Homeland Security/Office of Gulf Coast Rebuilding (March 2006 - July 2007)2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
