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.
Peter GordonCenter for American Progress Action FundCovered position: Staff asst., Sen. Roland Burris; leg. asst., Rep. Stephen F. Lynch.21 filingsthrough 2026
Madeline Warner ShepherdCenter for American Progress Action Fund20 filingsthrough 2026
Jack SwetlandCenter for American Progress Action FundCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. Jefferson9 filingsthrough 2011
N/A N/ACenter for American Progress Action Fund5 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: center-for-american-progress-action-fund.
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.
29 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
27 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$678K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
22 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Housing
HOU
21 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$561K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
20 filings
$530K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
20 filings
$473K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
17 filings
$419K 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.
110th Congress
SAVE Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5515110th CongressNew Employee Verification Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5818110th CongressNeighborhood Stabilization Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6078110th CongressGREEN Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1693117th CongressEQUAL Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3117th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3755117th CongressWomen’s Health Protection Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
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.
Rebecca SalayCenter for American Progress Action Fund
5 filingsthrough 2011
Ilia RodriguezCenter for American Progress Action Fund5 filingsthrough 2010
Angela Maria KelleyCenter for American Progress Action FundCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2013
Lauren BazelCenter for American Progress Action FundCovered position: Sr. Policy Advisor for Tax Policy, Senator Cantwell4 filingsthrough 2011
