16 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2020 · latest filed Jan 18, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$200K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$200K
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$120K 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.R. 7262116th CongressCommunity Development in Opportunity Zones Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
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 Baca
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: aura-financial-corporation.
$80K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
1 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act1 filingthrough 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.
8 filings
through 2020
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 2020
Aaron TrujilloFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Assoc. Dir. for Leg. and Intergovernmental Affairs/Sen. Advisor for Native Amer. Affairs, Dept. of Commerce // Sen. Leg. Aide, Rep. Ben Ray Lujan6 filingsthrough 2020
Miya PatelFulcrum Public Affairs LLCCovered position: Leg. Assistant, Rep. Joe Neguse // Leg. Counsel, Rep. John Delaney // Legal Fellow, House Financial Services Comm.3 filingsthrough 2020
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 Gillibrand3 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
