42 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 17, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
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.
Education
EDU
40 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$615K 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 26 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2925110th CongressGifted and Talented Students Education Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3407110th CongressPositive Behavior for Effective Schools Act5 filingsthrough 2008
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: council-for-exceptional-chidlren.
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
110th Congress
Full Funding for IDEA Now Act
5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1159110th CongressIDEA Full Funding Act5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1017110th CongressProtecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5613110th CongressProtecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1762110th CongressHigher Education Access Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 578110th CongressProtecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2036111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2597111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3578111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Laura KaloiThe Council for Exceptional Chidlren1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
