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.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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-united-for-separation-of-church-and-state.
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.
25 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Religion
REL
16 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$548K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$463K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
6 filings
$437K on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
3 filings
$196K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$128K 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.
116th Congress
Do No Harm Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 593116th CongressDo No Harm Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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.
10 filings
through 2010
Samantha SokolAmericans United for Separation of Church and StateCovered position: Federal Policy Advocate9 filingsthrough 2024
Aaron David SchuhamAmericans United for Separation of Church and State9 filingsthrough 2010
Beth Erin KurtzAmericans United for Separation of Church and State8 filingsthrough 2010
Alessandro TerenzoniAmericans United for Separation of Church and StateCovered position: Vice President for Public Policy6 filingsthrough 2026
Peter KurdockAmericans United for Separation of Church and StateCovered position: Assistant Legislative Director5 filingsthrough 2012
Emily KruegerAmericans United for Separation of Church and State4 filingsthrough 2012
Nathan HennaginAmericans United for Separation of Church and StateCovered position: Legislative Assistant4 filingsthrough 2011
Dena SherDena Sher3 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
