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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-inquiry-inc-office-of-public-policy.
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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.
24 filings
$211K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
23 filings
$344K on those filings
Education
EDU
21 filings
$248K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$218K on those filings
Constitution
CON
13 filings
$140K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
10 filings
$157K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$170K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$52K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$84K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$42K 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.
117th Congress
Expressing support for the designation of May 7, 2021, as a "National Day of Reason" and recognizing the central importance of reason in the betterment of humanity.
S. 1843110th CongressFair Pay Restoration Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1975117th CongressWomen’s Health Protection Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
S.Res. 458116th CongressA resolution calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5480117th CongressTo clarify the applicability of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to rules issued under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and to amend such Act to prohibit emergency temporary standards with respect to vaccines, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2752117th CongressDo No Harm Act2 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2010
Aaron Daniel GreenCenter for Inquiry, Inc. Office of Public Policy6 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew Stephen SeparaCenter for Inquiry, Inc. Office of Public Policy3 filingsthrough 2010
Ruth MitchellCenter for Inquiry, Inc. Office of Public Policy1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
