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.
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-opportunity-in-education.
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.
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
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.
115th Congress
PROSPER Act
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20096 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3043110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1094113th CongressStrengthening America's Schools Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1238113th CongressKeep Student Loans Affordable Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1754113th CongressHigher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act3 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.
Covered position:
37 filingsthrough 2026
Heather ValentineCouncil for Opportunity in Education19 filingsthrough 2013
Thomas R JollyJOLLY/RISSLER, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Elizabeth N FoxJOLLY/RISSLER, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Patricia F RisslerJOLLY/RISSLER, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Maureen HoylerCouncil for Opportunity in Education6 filingsthrough 2009
Kristin M. SmithThompson Coburn LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Appropriations Assistant, Rep. Denny Rehberg; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Olympia Snowe; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Conrad Burns5 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher T MurrayDow Lohnes PLLC5 filingsthrough 2011
Kenneth D SalomonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher T MurrayDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Jameson Christian BellCouncil for Opportunity in Education3 filingsthrough 2026
Zach FarmerCouncil for Opportunity in Education3 filingsthrough 2021
M Robert CarrDow Lohnes PLLCCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2008
Alexander PerezThe Normandy Group, LLCCovered position: Congressman Joe Garcia: Constituent Relations Director & Senator Menendez: Staff Assistant2 filingsthrough 2026
Haley Akins DavisDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Hon. Bill Shuster2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 12 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
