Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
California Life Sciences Association
California
23 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$960K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$960K
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.
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
23 filings
$960K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
23 filings
$960K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5376 118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act2 filingsthrough 2023
- H.R. 5376 117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Elizabeth Greer Forbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)24 filingsthrough 2026
- Rachel Miller Forbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)10 filingsthrough 2022
- Cynthia Brown Forbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)10 filingsthrough 2022
- Michael Alexander Williams Forbes-Tate Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 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: california-life-sciences-association.