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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
75 filings
$1.1M 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.
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.
Andrew ShoreJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference; Director of Policy and Coalitions, House Republican Conference; Legislative Director, Congressman Phil Crane; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bill Archer; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Nussle40 filingsthrough 2026
Michael YudinThe Raben GroupCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Legislative Director, Senator Jeanne Shaheen39 filingsthrough 2026
James JochumJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Assistant Secretary for Import Admin, Department of Commerce; Assistant Secretary for Export Admin, Department of Commerce; Trade Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Charles Grassley; Trade Counsel, Senate Banking Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 80 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: equal-justice-works.
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.
36 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph OnekThe Raben GroupCovered position: Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Justice Department; Senior Coordinator for Rule of Law, State Department; Senior Counsel to Speaker Nancy Pelosi29 filingsthrough 2023
Patricia FirstThe Raben GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General in DOJs Office of Legislative Affairs Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy23 filingsthrough 2022
Grace CarmichaelThe Raben GroupCovered position: Intern,Office of Congressman Jim Cooper;Staff Assistant,Office of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi;Legislative Correspondent & Press Assistant, Office of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi15 filingsthrough 2026
Connie MyersNelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: U.S. House of Representatives 1989-1994; U.S. Department of Education 1994-20014 filingsthrough 2018
Craig H MetzNelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: Chief of Staff to Cong. Spence 1993-2001; Prof. Staff Mem., HASC, 1995-20013 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 12 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
