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
57 filings
$1M on those filings
Education
EDU
55 filings
$990K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1747113th CongressWorkforce Development Investment Act of 20131 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Laura KroegerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate23 filingsthrough 2021
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: President15 filingsthrough 2014
Joseph MeloTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jerry McNerney, PA14 filingsthrough 2026
Dana DebeaumontTownsend Public Affairs14 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: coast-community-college-district.
24 filings
$472K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
21 filings
$413K on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
10 filings
$167K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$145K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$134K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
5 filings
$98K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$79K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$8K 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.
A J WebsterTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate
12 filingsthrough 2020
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate11 filingsthrough 2015
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA10 filingsthrough 2023
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director10 filingsthrough 2017
Casey ElliottTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director9 filingsthrough 2021
Chelsea VongehrTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate9 filingsthrough 2017
Cindy BoydTownsend Public Affairs8 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs6 filingsthrough 2014
Ashley SetoudehTownsend Public Affairs6 filingsthrough 2013
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate4 filingsthrough 2014
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Sean FitzgeraldTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 12 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.