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
3 filings
$220K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6800119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.1 filingthrough 2026
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-council-of-nonprofits.
3 filings
$220K 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.
119th Congress
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
1 filingthrough 2026
S. 3554119th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.1 filingthrough 2026
S. 3942119th CongressSPONSOR Act1 filingthrough 2026
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:
4 filingsthrough 2026
Adam Leonard CarassoCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Senior Tax and Economic Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; Chief Economist, House Budget Committee.4 filingsthrough 2026
Charles Patrick MichaelsCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Schweikert; Staff Assistant, Rep. Ted Budd; Intern, Senator James DeMint.4 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
