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
44 filings
$345K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
33 filings
$250K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1118114th CongressCommunity Partnerships in Education Act4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
Danica L PetroshiusPenn Hill GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate HELP Committee; Chief Education Advisor, U.s. Senate HELP Committee; Education Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senate HELP Committee45 filingsthrough 2026
Kara MarchionePenn Hill GroupCovered position: LegAsst/InternCoord, Senator Edward M. Kennedy9 filingsthrough 2015
Aissa CancholaPenn Hill GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor/Legislative Aide/Staff Assistant, U.S. Senate HELP Committee; Staff Assistant, Senator Barbara Boxer8 filingsthrough 2018
Rich Stombres
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: every-hour-counts.
1 filing
$20K 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
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 9029118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4942118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9260119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4942119th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20261 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.
Penn Hill Group
Covered position: Deputy Director Ed/HR, House Committee on Education & Workforce; Asst Deputy Director Ed/HR, House committee on Education & Workforce; Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Education & Workforce;and Staff Assistant, House Committee on Science
7 filingsthrough 2016
Gretchen HopkirkPenn Hill Group5 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew FersonPenn Hill GroupCovered position: Intern, Congressman Stephen Lynch5 filingsthrough 2020
William ShippsPenn Hill Group5 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
