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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
66 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
64 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 120 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 365118th CongressDream Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6117th CongressAmerican Dream and Promise Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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-state-senate.
59 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
52 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
40 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
39 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
33 filings
$990K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
19 filings
$570K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$330K 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.
115th Congress
Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 87115th CongressStop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6116th CongressAmerican Dream and Promise Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3003115th CongressNo Sanctuary for Criminals Act7 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Patrick Byrne
Cj Lake, LLC
19 filingsthrough 2019
JAMES M COPELAND jrCj Lake, LLC18 filingsthrough 2013
John YoungCj Lake, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Doris Matsui15 filingsthrough 2012
Curtis ErdmannCj Lake, LLC11 filingsthrough 2022
John AssiniCj Lake, LLC8 filingsthrough 2022
Kevin P ForgettCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Nadiah A CooperCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph C JankiewiczCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Jon HaubertCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
