52 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Jan 5, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$730K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$730K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: americans-for-safe-access.
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.
BAN
24 filings
$600K on those filings
Veterans
VET
21 filings
$355K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
10 filings
$270K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$10K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
7 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$70K on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
1 filing
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.
113th Congress
States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 710113th CongressTruth in Trials Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2995114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2835111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3939111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4660113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1983112th CongressStates' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1984112th CongressSmall Business Banking Improvement Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1985112th CongressSmall Business Tax Equity Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5016113th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Debbie ChurgaiAmericans for Safe Access2 filingsthrough 2020
DAVID ERIC KRAHL phdDavid Krahl2 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
