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
65 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$690K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 44 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1094113th CongressStrengthening America's Schools Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3206111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael YudinThe Raben GroupCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Legislative Director, Senator Jeanne Shaheen42 filingsthrough 2026
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: los-angeles-unified-school-district.
LBR
1 filing
$20K 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.
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
23 filingsthrough 2025
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Attorney Gen, DOJ; Counsel, House Judic.14 filingsthrough 2019
James ColliganThe Raben Group14 filingsthrough 2019
Aladdin Nabil FawalThe Raben GroupCovered position: Intern, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) (Aug 2021 - Dec 2021); Intern, Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA-2) (Jan 2022 - May 2022)13 filingsthrough 2026
