Michelson Center for Public Policy — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Michelson Center for Public Policy
California
15 filings from 2 registrants · 2020–2023 · latest filed Oct 18, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$404K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$404K
across every firm on file
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
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Srinivas SontiLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Temporary Professional Staff - United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Senior Policy Advisor-Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) Research Director-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)11 filingsthrough 2023
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: michelson-center-for-public-policy.
$30K
fees reported
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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.
3 filings
$109K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Animals
ANI
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$40K 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
Pets Belong With Families Act
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7667117th CongressFood and Drug Amendments of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4348117th CongressFDASLA Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 869117th CongressRISE Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
S. 289117th CongressRISE Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
S. 3062117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 4659117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
5 filingsthrough 2021
Amanda Lee BrunoLewis-Burke Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2023
Barbara ComstockBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Former United States Representative3 filingsthrough 2022
Robert GardnerBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Legislative Staff for Minority Leader Schumer2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
