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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
41 filings
$400K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2289110th CongressStriving Readers Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3406110th CongressSuccess in the Middle Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
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-teachers-of-english.
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.
110th Congress
Success in the Middle Act of 2007
6 filingsthrough 2008
S. 958110th CongressStriving Readers Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.Res. 4037111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S.Res. 2740111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.3 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.Res. 4037112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2011
S.Res. 2740112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2011
S.Res. 668111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Ellin NolanNational Council of Teachers of English6 filingsthrough 2010
