52 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Feb 22, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$400K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$400K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
49 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 73 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1376110th CongressMedicaid Foster Care Coverage Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John SciamannaChild Welfare League of AmericaCovered position: Legislative Assistant33 filingsthrough 2021
Timothy Briceland-BettsChild Welfare League of America20 filingsthrough 2014
Yaminco VarnerChild Welfare League of AmericaCovered position: Social Work Fellow16 filingsthrough 2013
Suzanne LayChild Welfare League of America11 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 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: child-welfare-league-of-america.
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.
HCR
11 filings
$220K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$87K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
1 filing
$20K 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.
H.R. 1582110th CongressGang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2343110th CongressEducation Begins at Home Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3014110th CongressHealth Equity and Accountability Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5641110th CongressIRA Assistance Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2771110th CongressWhite House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 456110th CongressGang Abatement and Prevention Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 558110th CongressMental Health Parity Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 667110th CongressEducation Begins at Home Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 884110th CongressFamily-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 618111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 911111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
John Sciamanna
John Sciamanna
8 filingsthrough 2015
Sean Hughes HughesChild Welfare League of AmericaCovered position: Legislative Director7 filingsthrough 2013
Laura WeidnerChild Welfare League of America6 filingsthrough 2009
Branden A McleodChild Welfare League of America1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
