Minority Business Association D/B/A Minority Cannabis Business Association Mcba
District of Columbia
11 filings from 1 registrant · 2021–2023 · latest filed Oct 15, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$160K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$160K
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.
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
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1996117th CongressSecure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 910117th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah9 filingsthrough 2022
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Corresponsent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer8 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel S. Nunez CohenK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2022
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP6 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: minority-business-association-d-b-a-minority-cannabis-business-association-mcba.
LAW
7 filings
$160K 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
MORE Act
2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4591117th CongressCannabis Administration and Opportunity Act1 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.
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee
5 filingsthrough 2022
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance2 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2022
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, National Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics2 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel Gerald MiclotK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
