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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
71 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
65 filings
$5.3M 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 62 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3206111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman44 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah AbernathyAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Committee on the Budget Democratic Staff, Sr. Policy Coordinator; Director of Appropriations Analysis; Budget Analyst; Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Program and Management Analyst; Presidential Management Intern42 filingsthrough 2026
Joel PackerThe Raben Group28 filingsthrough 2016
Courtney SnowdenThe Raben Group Staff Assistant, Rep. Tammy Baldwin
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: committee-for-education-funding.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2016
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 125114th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026.3 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.3 filingsthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.3 filingsthrough 2013
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3010114th CongressPreserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2132114th CongressAn Act Making Appropriations to Stop Regulatory Excess and for Other Purposes, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.2 filingsthrough 2015
H.Con.Res. 96113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2015 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2016 through 2024.2 filingsthrough 2014
H.J.Res. 83113th CongressImpact Aid Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 20142 filingsthrough 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.
