Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Institute for Higher Education Policy
District of Columbia
44 filings from 2 registrants · 2018–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$107K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$107K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
14 filings
$107K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1766 116th CongressCollege Transparency Act7 filingsthrough 2020
- H.R. 2030 117th CongressCollege Transparency Act4 filingsthrough 2021
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Amanda Miller Seventh Street Strategies LLCCovered position: Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel (September-October 2020), Senator Mikulski Policy Director (2010), Senate Judiciary Committee Investigative Counsel (2003-2004), U.S. Department of Justice, Counsel (2009)14 filingsthrough 2021
- Jennifer Castagna Educationcounsel LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Apporpriations Committee (Labor, health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee); Appropriations Director, Office of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter; Legislative Assistant, Office of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter; Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter5 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: institute-for-higher-education-policy.