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.
Health Issues
HCR
67 filings
$990K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
37 filings
$360K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 88 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 725114th CongressAlan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 821114th CongressBPA in Food Packaging Right to Know Act9 filingsthrough 2016
Diego SanchezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Representative Mike Coffman (CO-06)34 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel PenchinaThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Legislative Director for Congressman Christopher Murphy Legislative Assistant and Appropriations Associate for Congressman Jerrold Nadler28 filingsthrough 2017
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: breast-cancer-prevention-partners-formerly-known-as-breast-cancer-fund.
CSP
37 filings
$360K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
37 filings
$360K 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.
114th Congress
Personal Care Products Safety Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1385113th CongressSafe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 696113th CongressSafe Chemicals Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3619118th CongressToxic-Free Beauty Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3620118th CongressCosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3621118th CongressCosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3699117th CongressToxic Free Food Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3990117th CongressNo PFAS in Cosmetics Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4694117th CongressFood Chemical Reassessment Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4963117th CongressPreventing Harmful Exposure to Phthalates Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2047117th CongressNo PFAS in Cosmetics Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2100117th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act7 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.
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Att. General, DOJ; Counsel House Judiciary15 filingsthrough 2012
