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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Government Issues
GOV
67 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
45 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 1,209 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 22114th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1459114th CongressDemocracy Restoration Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
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: common-cause.
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.
BUD
34 filings
$1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$182K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$42K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$30K 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.
S. 229114th CongressDISCLOSE Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 772114th CongressDemocracy Restoration Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S.J.Res. 5114th CongressA joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1020116th CongressTo amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require Members of Congress to disclose business ties with foreign entities, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1021116th CongressPublic Service Integrity Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1022116th CongressTo provide that a former Member of Congress or former senior Congressional employee who receives compensation as a lobbyist representing a foreign principal shall not be eligible for retirement benefits or certain other Federal benefits.9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1028116th CongressRIGHT Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
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.
14 filingsthrough 2012
Virginia Kase SolomonCommon Cause11 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen SpauldingCommon CauseCovered position: Intern to Senator Paul S. Sarbanes11 filingsthrough 2016
Omar NoureldinCommon Cause5 filingsthrough 2026
Susannah GoodmanCommon Cause4 filingsthrough 2008
Edwin DavisCommon Cause3 filingsthrough 2008
Jon BartholomewCommon Cause3 filingsthrough 2008
Preston MitchumCommon Cause2 filingsthrough 2026
Josh ZaharoffCommon Cause2 filingsthrough 2008
Andrea LarueNvg, LLCCovered position: Rules Committee Counsel, Senator Christopher Dodd; Counsel, Senator Thomas A. Daschle; Legislative Assistant & District Director, Congressman Michael A. Andrews1 filingthrough 2026
Erinn MartinNvg, LLC1 filingthrough 2026
John SparksCommon Cause1 filingthrough 2009
Mike SurruscoCommon Cause1 filingthrough 2008
Chris KeeleyCommon Cause1 filingthrough 2008
Susan LernerCommon Cause1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
