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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Education
EDU
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 303 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 125115th CongressExpressing support for the designation of June 21 as National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day to promote children's health and safe storage of guns in the home.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1005115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans.8 filingsthrough 2018
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: easterseals-inc.
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.
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
45 filings
$3M on those filings
Veterans
VET
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Insurance
INS
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
38 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
37 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
27 filings
$2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
23 filings
$1.8M 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
Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 418115th CongressEarly Intervention for Veterans and their Families Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 620115th CongressADA Education and Reform Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 807115th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1190114th CongressProtecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1271114th CongressConcussion Awareness and Education Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Ted Thompson
Easterseals, Inc
Covered position: Lobbyist
6 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew Jason BinderEasterseals, Inc5 filingsthrough 2026
