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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$459K on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$280K 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 — 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.
H.R. 5427110th CongressTax-Free Gold Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
Rick MeyersMeyers and Associates29 filingsthrough 2015
Larry D MeyersMeyers and Associates16 filingsthrough 2015
Cheri BustosMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: 2013-2023 US Senator10 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas BustosMercury Public Affairs, LLC9 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan PyattMercury Public Affairs, LLC Chief of Staff, Rep. Cheri Bustos (2015-2020); Deputy Chief of Staff and Floor Director, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz 2005-2011).
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: illinois-state-university.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
To provide public charter school options for those students that attend schools that are in need of improvement and have been identified for restructuring and those schools with a graduation rate of less than 60 percent, and for other purposes.
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5672110th CongressWomen's Business Ownership Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2641111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3043111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3074111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3093111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2026
Zach KoutskyMercury Public Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 2 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
