Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Committee for Civil Debate D/B/A Ban the Batistas
Virginia
6 filings from 1 registrant · 2023–2025 · latest filed Apr 16, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$130K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$130K
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.
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$130K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
5 filings
$130K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Jennifer Kaufmann Actum I, LLCCovered position: Counsel/Rules Associate for Hon. Alcee Hastings (D-FL); Legal Intern, House Judiciary Committee; Deputy Scheduler, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)6 filingsthrough 2024
- Courtney Speigal Actum I, LLC3 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: committee-for-civil-debate-d-b-a-ban-the-batistas.