36 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2019 · latest filed May 17, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
across every firm on file
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
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.
Education
EDU
35 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 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.
S. 2557116th CongressStudent Aid Improvement Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2019
A Bradford CardCard & Associates, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. John E. Sweeney30 filingsthrough 2019
John Peter OlingerDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas J DowneyDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2015
Adam C. BordesCard & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Cong Louis Stokes (1998); Legislative Assistant, Cong William L Clay, Sr (1999-2000); Professional Staff Member and Sr Policy Advisor, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (2003-2011)6 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: association-of-proprietary-colleges.
fees reported
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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.
H.R. 4983113th CongressStrengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4984113th CongressEmpowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5325114th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act2 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Christopher Del BeccaroCard & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Cong Ken Calvert (2011); Sr. Legislative Assistant, Cong Jeff Denham (2011-2015); Legislative Director, Cong Dan Donovan (2015-2017)5 filingsthrough 2019
