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
37 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$930K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate37 filingsthrough 2026
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Senator Chuck Hagel
Staff Assistant, Senator Chuck Hagel24 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Senator Rob Portman Communications Director, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Mike DeWine17 filingsthrough 2021
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: imagine-learning.
10 filings
$500K 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
Biking on Long-Distance Trails Act
2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7614116th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20211 filingthrough 2020
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.
