55 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2022 · latest filed Feb 21, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$333K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$333K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: board-of-trustees-northern-illinois-university.
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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.
IMM
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$28K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$20K 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.
112th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4057112th CongressImproving Transparency of Education Opportunities for Veterans Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 516112th CongressBring Jobs Back to America Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
through 2013
John G PetersBoard of Trustees - Northern Illinois UniversityCovered position: President2 filingsthrough 2008
Kenneth ZehnderBoard of Trustees - Northern Illinois UniversityCovered position: Assistant Director of External Affairs1 filingthrough 2008
