Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Communicating for America
Minnesota
63 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Dec 1, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$241K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$135K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$106K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Immigration
IMM
35 filings
$215K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
35 filings
$203K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4757 113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand certain exceptions to the private activity bond rules for first-time farmers, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2014
- H.R. 133 116th CongressConsolidated Appropriations Act, 20211 filingthrough 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.
- Ben Schierer Communicating for America18 filingsthrough 2014
- Joel White Horizon Government AffairsCovered position: Former Staff Director, House Ways and Means Committee; L.A. for Rep. Jim Greenwood; L.A. for Rep. Chris Shays14 filingsthrough 2021
- Wayne Nelson Communicating for AmericaCovered position: President14 filingsthrough 2012
- Jennifer Steger Horizon Government AffairsCovered position: Scheduler/Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jean Schmidt; Executive Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Gerlach
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 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: communicating-for-america.