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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
66 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
35 filings
$460K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 45 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2576116th CongressFederal Government Advertising Equity Accountability Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2576118th CongressTo amend the Securities Act of 1933 to expand the research report exception to include reports about any issuer that undertakes a proposed offering of public securities.8 filingsthrough 2024
Jon BernsteinBernstein Strategy Group37 filingsthrough 2017
Melissa Francis (Formerly Bonicelli)Venn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer (R-TX).16 filingsthrough 2021
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: intel.
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.
33 filings
$440K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$530K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
14 filings
$170K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$10K 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
For the 99.5 Percent Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2576115th CongressIncentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 521113th CongressTransforming Education through Technology Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2374113th CongressMiddle Class CHANCE Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2092114th CongressStudent Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1322114th CongressProtecting Student Privacy Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1341114th CongressStudent Privacy Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2576119th CongressServicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3582114th CongressDigital Learning Equity Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1606114th CongressDigital Learning Equity Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1788114th CongressSAFE KIDS Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1087113th CongressEnhancing Education Through Technology Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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:
14 filingsthrough 2017
Alexander PerryAlcalde & FayCovered position: Intern/Congressman Heath Shuler8 filingsthrough 2013
Elise TollefsonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Reed; Legislative Director, Rep. Randy Hultgren7 filingsthrough 2021
Michael LanzaVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Counsel for House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA).5 filingsthrough 2018
Krista DrobacSirona Strategies LLCCovered position: Schedule C, Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services; Legis. Asst., Sen. Durbin; Fellow, Sen. Stabenow3 filingsthrough 2016
Patricia FirstThe Raben GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General in DOJs Office of Legislative Affairs Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy3 filingsthrough 2015
