Center for Children'S Law and Policy — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Center for Children'S Law and Policy
District of Columbia
19 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Mar 17, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$224K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$154K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$70K
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
16 filings
$224K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3155110th CongressJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 678111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Dana Lynne ShoenbergCenter for Children'S Law and Policy14 filingsthrough 2012
Mark Irvin SolerCenter for Children'S Law and Policy14 filingsthrough 2012
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-childrens-law-and-policy.
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.
Carlyle ThorsenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: General Counsel, Rep. Tom DeLay, 2004-2005 ; ; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Tom DeLay, 2002-2004 ; ; Deputy Assistant Attorney Gernal, DOJ, 2001-2002 ; ; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, 1999-2001 ; ; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Bill McCollum 1999 ; ; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Frank LoBiondo, 1996-1999
2 filingsthrough 2009
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter, 1997-20022 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
