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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
36 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Brian BallardBallard Partners37 filingsthrough 2026
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.22 filingsthrough 2022
Tola ThompsonBallard PartnersCovered position: Communications Director and Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Carrie Meek (1993-2002); Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Al Lawson (2017-2021)12 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: miami-dade-county-public-schools.
7 filings
$210K 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.
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: LD to Cong. Scarborough. CoS to Cong.Miller/Gaetz
8 filingsthrough 2019
Justin J. SayfieBallard PartnersCovered position: Commissioner, Commission on White House Fellows7 filingsthrough 2019
Hunter MorgenBallard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017); Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018); Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)4 filingsthrough 2025
Micah KetchelBallard PartnersCovered position: Senior Advisor, State Dept. 2025; Special Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor to the NSA, White House 2025;Chief of Staff, US Rep. Mike Waltz 2019-2025;Counsel, House Vet. Affairs Comm. 2011-2012;Staff Assistant, House Vet.Affairs Comm.20111 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
