Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Central States Funds
Illinois
69 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.7M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
66 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
64 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 1339 118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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.
- Brigen L Winters Groom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means66 filingsthrough 2026
- Michael P Kreps Groom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Senior Pensions & Employment Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions45 filingsthrough 2026
- Gary M Ford Groom Law Group, Chartered38 filingsthrough 2019
- WILLIAM F SWEETNAM jr Groom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Benefits Tax Counsel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: central-states-funds.