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.
Oscar Thomas RamirezFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Department of Labor // Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA-32) // Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Al Green (D-TX-09) // Legislative Assistant / Legislative Director, Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA-43)19 filingsthrough 2024
Miya PatelFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO-02) // Legislative Counsel, Rep. John Delaney (D-MD-06) // Legal Fellow, House Financial Services Committee16 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah MonteithFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) // Legislative Assistant, Rep. Josh Harder (D-CA-10) // Legislative Assistant, Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA-06)14 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: animal-legal-defense-fund.
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.
6 filings
$110K 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
Pigs and Public Health Act
10 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1594119th CongressCaptive Primate Safety Act8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5286119th CongressHumane Transport of Farmed Animals Act2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8994118th CongressPigs and Public Health Act2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7610116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7159119th CongressProtecting Local Zoos Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
S. 1529119th CongressKeep Finfish Free Act of 20251 filingthrough 2026
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.
Margaret FranklinFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL-05) // Senior Legislative Assistant / Acting Legislative Director / Legislative Assistant, Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12) // Leg. Aide, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)14 filingsthrough 2023
Dana Jamal ThompsonFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Legislative Director / Chief Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA-43) // Legislative Counsel / Chief Counsel / Deputy Chief of Staff / Chief of Staff, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18)11 filingsthrough 2022
Jason TaiTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Dan Lipinski; Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Bill Lipinski; Associate Professional Staff Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee8 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer Leah PlaceTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor Mccarty HooverCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Comm. Dir., Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson; Comm. Dir., House Ag. Cmte8 filingsthrough 2026
Jordan SmithCogent Strategies LLC7 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff BurtonBurton Strategy GroupCovered position: Director of Outreach - Republican Whip Eric Cantor Chief of Staff - Congressman Mike Conaway6 filingsthrough 2026
