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
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 48 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 927117th CongressChild and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1408119th CongressAffordable Child Care Act6 filingsthrough 2026
Sara Garofalo LinderArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Steve Driehaus (2009); Intern, Rep. Walt Minnick (2009)19 filingsthrough 2026
Janice BashfordArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Leg Dir & Chief Counsel, Rep Bass (2016-21); Interim Africa Staff Dir, House Foreign Affairs Sub (2017); Leg Dir and Chief Counsel, Rep Waters (2014); Leg Dir & Chief Counsel, Rep Jackson Lee (2011-14)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: learning-care-group.
17 filings
$790K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$750K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$80K 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.
119th Congress
Child Care Workforce Act
6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1827119th CongressChild Care Availability and Affordability Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 846119th CongressChild Care Workforce Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 847119th CongressChild Care Availability and Affordability Act6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4571118th CongressChild Care Investment Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 271117th CongressChild and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2828119th CongressChild Care Modernization Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3899117th CongressChild Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1447119th CongressEarly Childhood Nutrition Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7027116th CongressChild Care Is Essential Act3 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.
18 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor CazeaultArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP12 filingsthrough 2026
