Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Middle East Forum
Pennsylvania
29 filings from 4 registrants · 2016–2026 · latest filed Jul 24, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$350K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$205K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$145K
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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
19 filings
$315K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$245K on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Clifford Smith Clifford Smith12 filingsthrough 2017
- Benjamin Scott Baird Middle East Forum9 filingsthrough 2026
- Jeffrey Speaks Jbs Communications, LLC5 filingsthrough 2020
- Susannah Johnston Middle East Forum4 filingsthrough 2024
- JAMES C WILTRAUT jr Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC3 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: middle-east-forum.