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.
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: anti-defamation-league.
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.
EDU
67 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
66 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
61 filings
$6M on those filings
Religion
REL
56 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Constitution
CON
45 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
34 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
26 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
22 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
21 filings
$4.4M 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
Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2019
10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1591118th CongressDomestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1178117th CongressCommission on Domestic Terrorism Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 350117th CongressDomestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 20229 filingsthrough 2022
H.Res. 1525118th CongressCalling for comprehensive legislation that addresses United States policies contributing to forced migration and displacement, promotes an immigration system that addresses the root causes of migration, reaffirms United States commitment to asylum, and provides a roadmap to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States.8 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3800117th CongressGLOBE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1996117th CongressGLOBE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 65117th CongressUyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 964117th CongressDomestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1799116th CongressVoting Rights Amendment Act of 20198 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.
Peter MadiganTiber Creek GroupCovered position: CoS, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick12 filingsthrough 2017
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Bell ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean12 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lee Terry ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith12 filingsthrough 2017
Jennifer OlsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe12 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan AllenAnti-Defamation League8 filingsthrough 2024
Miya PatelFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Leg. Assistant, Rep. Joe Neguse // Leg. Counsel, Rep. John Delaney // Legal Fellow, House Financial Services Comm.8 filingsthrough 2022
Oscar Thomas RamirezFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor // Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis // Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green // Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca8 filingsthrough 2022
Dana Jamal ThompsonFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee8 filingsthrough 2022
Gabriella LiebermanAnti-Defamation LeagueCovered position: Special Asst., Dept. of Commerce (2024-2025); Advance Associate, White House (2023); Leg. Intern, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (2021); Fellow, Sen. Ed Markey (2020)6 filingsthrough 2026
Brian BallardBallard Partners6 filingsthrough 2025
Hunter MorgenBallard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017); Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018); Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)6 filingsthrough 2025
Chelsea ParsonsAnti-Defamation League6 filingsthrough 2022
Erika L MoritsuguAnti-Defamation League6 filingsthrough 2019
Margaret FranklinFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Al Lawson // Sr. Leg. Assistant/Acting Leg. Dir./Leg. Assistant, Rep. Alma Adams // Leg. Aide, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand4 filingsthrough 2021
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2019
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady; Deputy Executive Secretary and Confidential Assistant, Office of U.S. Trade Representative4 filingsthrough 2019
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sue Myrick4 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 19 of 40 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
