Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Common Sense Media
California
43 filings from 3 registrants · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$928K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$605K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$323K
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
36 filings
$886K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
22 filings
$605K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1367 116th CongressCAMRA Act6 filingsthrough 2020
- S. 558 116th CongressCAMRA Act6 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Daniel Weiss Common Sense Media23 filingsthrough 2026
- Shawn H Smeallie Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB16 filingsthrough 2025
- Julie Philp Acg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Sr. LA Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler Rep. Michael Burgess; LA and Scheduler Rep. Connie Morella; LA Ileana Ros-Lehtinen16 filingsthrough 2025
- Gabriel Perez-Alvarez Acg Advocacy8 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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: common-sense-media.