Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
District of Columbia
64 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2025 · latest filed Mar 18, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$369K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$369K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Filemon VelaD-Texas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 1603, H.R. 2214 +3 more
11 filings
2 lobbyists
Tom MalinowskiD-New Jersey-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +2 more
11 filings
2 lobbyists
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas Andrew SaenzMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: President and General Counsel52 filingsthrough 2022
Andrea SentenoMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Regional Counsel41 filingsthrough 2022
Adam J FernandezMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Legislative staff attorney34 filingsthrough 2020
James A Ferg CadimaMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2025
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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: mexican-american-legal-defense-and-educational-fund.
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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.
43 filings
$364K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
19 filings
$27K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$91K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$133K on those filings
Constitution
CON
4 filings
$31K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$107K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$99K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
2 filings
$17K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$54K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$54K 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 People Act of 2021
5 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1417113th CongressBorder Security Results Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3899113th CongressVoting Rights Amendment Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1945113th CongressVoting Rights Amendment Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3440115th CongressDream Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1615115th CongressDream Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2867114th CongressVoting Rights Advancement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4842114th CongressAmerican Dream Employment Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S. 4117th CongressJohn R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4116th CongressVoting Rights Advancement Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Michael F. Q. San NicolasD-Guam-AL
Bills: H.R. 2420, H.R. 4, H.R. 6
10 filings
2 lobbyists
Alcee L. HastingsD-Florida-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +1 more
9 filings
2 lobbyists
Patrick J. LeahyD-Vermont
Bills: S. 1, S. 4
9 filings
2 lobbyists
Alan S. LowenthalD-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +2 more
8 filings
1 lobbyist
Andy LevinD-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +2 more
8 filings
1 lobbyist
Ann KirkpatrickD-Arizona-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +2 more
8 filings
1 lobbyist
Anthony G. BrownD-Maryland-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 2214, H.R. 2420 +2 more
8 filings
1 lobbyist
Antonio DelgadoD-New York-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 1603, H.R. 2214 +3 more
8 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
20 filings
through 2014
Nikolas YoungsmithMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund8 filingsthrough 2022
Jose G. Magana SalgadoMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Staff Attorney8 filingsthrough 2014
Ernie DominguezMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Legislative Staff Attorney7 filingsthrough 2016
Veronica RiveraMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund7 filingsthrough 2010
G Claudine Mccullough KarasikMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund6 filingsthrough 2010
Maritza PerezMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Legislative Staff Attorney5 filingsthrough 2018
Tico AlmeidaMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Labor Policy Adviser, House Ed & Workforce Com.5 filingsthrough 2012
Peter ZamoraMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund5 filingsthrough 2008
John AmayaMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund5 filingsthrough 2008
Sam JammalMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund5 filingsthrough 2008
Lorena Montoya MarezMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund4 filingsthrough 2014
Alysa WilliamsMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund2 filingsthrough 2021
John TrasvinaMexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCovered position: Office of Special Counsel, Department of Justice2 filingsthrough 2008
Ruth LopezMexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
