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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$904K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
28 filings
$440K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1002112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 543112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 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: city-of-tulare.
LAW
28 filings
$417K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
28 filings
$411K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
22 filings
$330K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
16 filings
$252K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
12 filings
$141K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$173K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$102K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
8 filings
$94K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
6 filings
$94K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
6 filings
$79K 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.
119th Congress
Tulare Youth Recreation and Women’s History Enhancement Act
1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 1002113th CongressFair Access to Credit Scores Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 543113th CongressVISN Reorganization Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1837112th CongressSacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act1 filingthrough 2012
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.
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate
12 filingsthrough 2015
Raul Andres RamirezTownsend Public Affairs10 filingsthrough 2024
Cindy BoydTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate9 filingsthrough 2015
Spencer StreetTownsend Public Affairs8 filingsthrough 2026
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director8 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate6 filingsthrough 2021
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs5 filingsthrough 2014
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public Affairs2 filingsthrough 2014
Jennifer Marie ThompsonTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Liisa Lawson StarkTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 9 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
