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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Animals
ANI
14 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$50K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Res. 985119th CongressExpressing opposition to the use of onychectomy, also known as declawing, for elective surgery in cats.3 filingsthrough 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.
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 Committee6 filingsthrough 2025
Jennifer Leah PlaceTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC6 filingsthrough 2025
Miya Patel
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-legislative-fund.
$50K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Fulcrum Public Affairs LLC
Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO-02) // Legislative Counsel, Rep. John Delaney (D-MD-06) // Legal Fellow, House Financial Services Committee
6 filingsthrough 2024
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)6 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)6 filingsthrough 2024
