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.
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Attorney Gen, DOJ; Counsel, House Judic.43 filingsthrough 2020
Daniel PenchinaThe Raben Group Legislative Director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Legislative Director for Congressman Christopher Murphy Legislative Assistant and Appropriations Associate for Congressman Jerrold Nadler
The filings
The 20 most recent of 166 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: innocence-project.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
BUD
45 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$210K 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.
117th Congress
National Institute of Standards and Technology for the Future Act of 2021
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4602114th CongressJustice for All Reauthorization Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2577114th CongressJustice for All Reauthorization Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2022113th CongressForensic Science and Standards Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2177113th CongressCriminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 262117th CongressFederal Death Penalty Prohibition Act3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 97117th CongressFederal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7120116th CongressGeorge Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3985116th CongressJUSTICE Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2899115th CongressSecond Chance Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2772117th CongressConviction Integrity Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8239116th CongressForensic Science Research and Standards Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4568116th CongressForensic Science Research and Standards Act of 20202 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
31 filingsthrough 2017
Justin Douglas WilsonThe Raben Group29 filingsthrough 2021
Elliot WilliamsThe Raben GroupCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Assistant Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice27 filingsthrough 2023
Minh NguyenThe Raben GroupCovered position: intern, office of Congressman Adam Smith25 filingsthrough 2026
