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.
Education
EDU
16 filings
$540K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
$70K 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.
H.R. 2131113th CongressSKILLS Visa Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act6 filingsthrough 2014
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. James Talent22 filingsthrough 2026
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Talent; Senior Advisor, Department of Treasury19 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Wisner BlackwoodBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dir. Leg. Aff's, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency; Leg. Dir., Rep. Costello; Prof. Staff, House Transp. & Infr. Cmtee7 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth Christina SpekhardtBanner Public Affairs, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: chess-club-and-scholastic-center-of-saint-louis.
113th Congress
Expressing support for designation of Saint Louis, Missouri, as the "National Chess Capital" to enhance awareness of the educational benefits of chess and to encourage schools and community centers to engage in chess programs to promote problem solving, critical thinking, spatial awareness, and goal setting.
5 filingsthrough 2014
S.Res. 102113th CongressA resolution expressing support for the designation of Saint Louis, Missouri, as the "National Chess Capital" of the United States to enhance awareness of the educational benefits of chess and to encourage schools and community centers to engage in chess programs to promote problem-solving, critical thinking, spatial awareness, and goal setting.5 filingsthrough 2014
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.
6 filingsthrough 2024
Samantha Sheehan BilottaBanner Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2014
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rick Larsen5 filingsthrough 2025
Maranda SalingBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Correspondence Aide, Sen. Cory Booker5 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan LosakBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Boozman; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Kline4 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin GundersenBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Sr. Staff, House Homeland Security Cmtee.; Staff Dir., Subcmtee on Counterterrorism & Intel.3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
