Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Decentralization Research Center
Virginia
17 filings from 3 registrants · 2025–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$530K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$500K
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
16 filings
$1M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 3633 119th CongressDigital Asset Market Clarity Act9 filingsthrough 2026
- H.R. 4763 119th CongressPTO Act1 filingthrough 2025
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.
- Kyle Bligen Bligen Advisory, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. House of Representatives; Research Analyst, Department of Defense; International Affairs Fellow, U.S. Department of State7 filingsthrough 2026
- Andrew J Lewin Bgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt6 filingsthrough 2026
- Matt Hoffmann Bgr Government AffairsCovered position: St. Asst., LC, Sen. LC Rep. Vitter; LA, Sen. LA, LD Rep. Paul Ryan; Budget Analyst Rep. Paul Ryan; St. Dir. Health Subcmte House W&M Cmte; Policy Analyst Off. Speaker; Policy Dir. Sen. Fin Cmte.; Staff Dir. House Fin. Serv. Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: decentralization-research-center.