Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Michigan Research Institute
Michigan
46 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 13, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
40 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 7324 110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- William Simmons Dutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: L.A., Rep. J. Hansen; Professional Staff for House Resources Cmte; Staff Dir., House Resources Cmte Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.42 filingsthrough 2025
- Chris Andresen Dutko Worldwide, LLC39 filingsthrough 2025
- Arthur Silverman Dutko Worldwide, LLC14 filingsthrough 2011
- Chris Andresen Dutko Government Relations5 filingsthrough 2026
- William Simmons Dutko Government Relations
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: michigan-research-institute.