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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Animals
ANI
34 filings
$180K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$10K 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
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Jennifer Leah PlaceTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC20 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer Leah PlacePike Associates LLC17 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey Riter PikePike Associates LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff Merchant Marine and Fisheries17 filingsthrough 2021
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 Committee14 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: born-free-usa.
spend on filings that named this issue
119th Congress
Captive Primate Safety Act
5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 263117th CongressBig Cat Public Safety Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4206118th CongressCaptive Primate Safety Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5578117th CongressPublic Safety and Wildlife Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Augustus MaplesTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
