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.
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: human-rights-first.
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.
FOR
55 filings
$7.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$805K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$104K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$369K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$239K on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
1 filing
$204K 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
Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act
10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 630115th CongressKeeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1088116th CongressGRACE Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1123116th CongressNO BAN Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3112116th CongressPersonalized Care Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1325118th CongressAsylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2839117th CongressBipartisan Border Solutions Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1358117th CongressBipartisan Border Solutions Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Scott Cooper
Human Rights First
23 filingsthrough 2018
Eleanor AcerHuman Rights First23 filingsthrough 2017
Katherine CosgroveHuman Rights First19 filingsthrough 2018
Heather BrandonHuman Rights First19 filingsthrough 2018
Robyn LiebermanHuman Rights First14 filingsthrough 2014
Christopher PurdyHuman Rights First13 filingsthrough 2024
Olga ByrneHuman Rights First13 filingsthrough 2018
Ana OrtegaHuman Rights First11 filingsthrough 2022
Lawrence M DanielHuman Rights FirstCovered position: National Political Director, Office of Vice President Al Gore; Chief of Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Bobby Rush11 filingsthrough 2017
Sara Jane IbrahimHuman Rights First11 filingsthrough 2014
Devon ChaffeeHuman Rights First11 filingsthrough 2011
Anne Elizabeth SovcikHuman Rights First10 filingsthrough 2012
Emilee CutrightHuman Rights First9 filingsthrough 2023
Melissa HooperHuman Rights First9 filingsthrough 2020
Robert G BerschinskiHuman Rights FirstCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Obama Administration9 filingsthrough 2018
Michael Joseph QuigleyHuman Rights FirstCovered position: Prof Staff Mbr, Sen Sel Comm on Intel, 7/09-5/109 filingsthrough 2015
Duncan BreenHuman Rights First8 filingsthrough 2014
Katharina ObserHuman Rights First8 filingsthrough 2014
Erika AsgeirssonHuman Rights First7 filingsthrough 2017
Kennji KizukaHuman Rights First6 filingsthrough 2022
Shawn GaylordHuman Rights First6 filingsthrough 2015
Kathleen NorlandHuman Rights First6 filingsthrough 2014
Ruthie EpsteinHuman Rights First6 filingsthrough 2013
Amelia TempletonHuman Rights First6 filingsthrough 2009
Julia FromholzHuman Rights First5 filingsthrough 2008
Cory William SmithMr. Cory Smith4 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 4 of 39 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
