Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
College Football Playoff
Texas
89 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.2M
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.
Sports/Athletics
SPO
88 filings
$3.2M 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. 390 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 599 111th 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael J Bell Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Special Asst to the Atty Gen - Legislative Affairs, DOJ (2003-2005); Deputy Associate Director for Personnel The White House (2001-2003)66 filingsthrough 2026
- W. Michael House Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)38 filingsthrough 2019
- Mike House Oak Grove Strategies28 filingsthrough 2026
- Candida Perotti Wolff Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Ass't Pres for Legis Affairs; VP Legis Affairs; (contd.) ; ; Deputy Staff Director RPC; Counsel, Steering (contd.) ; ; Commitee; Counsel, Senator Wallop
The filings
The 20 most recent of 89 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: college-football-playoff.