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.
David AdamsCogent Strategies LLC Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State // Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State // SD, H. For. Aff. Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia // Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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: national-association-for-the-education-of-young-children.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
5 filings
$73K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$63K 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.
110th Congress
Higher Education Amendments of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3217115th CongressStrengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 791113th CongressContinuum of Learning Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1086113th CongressChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1094113th CongressStrengthening America's Schools Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.J.Res. 56112th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget.1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.5 filingsthrough 2017
