36 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Feb 12, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$30K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$30K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
27 filings
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$15K 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 41 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1356113th CongressWorkforce Investment Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1532113th CongressFinancial and Economic Literacy Improvement Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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-on-economic-education.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Young Americans Financial Literacy Act
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1645111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2920113th CongressFinancial Literacy for Students Act5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 829113th CongressFinancial Literacy for Students Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 626112th CongressFLY Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 78112th CongressProtecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 853112th CongressFinancial Literacy for Students Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2012111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1339111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3035111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3037111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1339111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 638111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
