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.
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: family-research-council.
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.
41 filings
$419K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
34 filings
$263K on those filings
Defense
DEF
30 filings
$390K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
28 filings
$443K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$384K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
25 filings
$421K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
23 filings
$261K on those filings
Education
EDU
19 filings
$281K on those filings
Constitution
CON
18 filings
$309K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
16 filings
$247K 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.
118th Congress
Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2023
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3329118th CongressEnd Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 811115th CongressChild Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3133113th CongressMarriage and Religious Freedom Act5 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Mandi AncalleFamily Research Council
11 filingsthrough 2017
Travis S. WeberFamily Research Council9 filingsthrough 2021
Leanna BaumerFamily Research Council9 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew GuernseyFamily Research Council7 filingsthrough 2017
Jamie DangersFamily Research Council6 filingsthrough 2016
Nicholas FraseFamily Research Council6 filingsthrough 2015
Chantel Elizabeth HoytFamily Research Council5 filingsthrough 2026
Emily MinickFamily Research Council5 filingsthrough 2014
Kelly MarcumFamily Research Council3 filingsthrough 2018
Jayd HenricksFamily Research Council1 filingthrough 2008
