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.
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-multiple-sclerosis-society.
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.
60 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
45 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
36 filings
$3M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
32 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$537K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
6 filings
$313K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$494K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$140K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$66K 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
Protecting Access to Post-COVID–19 Telehealth Act of 2021
12 filingsthrough 2022
S. 368117th CongressTelehealth Modernization Act12 filingsthrough 2022
S. 898117th CongressFair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1219117th CongressABLE Age Adjustment Act11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 19117th CongressLower Costs, More Cures Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2843117th CongressSTOP GAMES Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2846117th CongressEnsuring Access to Lower-Cost Medicines for Seniors Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2855117th CongressStar Rating for Biosimilars Act11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2869117th CongressIncreasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2891117th CongressPreserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3029117th CongressHealth Care PRICE Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4131117th CongressBetter Care Better Jobs Act11 filingsthrough 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.
Kimberly CalderNational Multiple Sclerosis Society
Jason Benjamin Van PeltCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Staff Asst: Rep. Ed Whitfield5 filingsthrough 2026
Brittany Johnson HernandezCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant: Rep. Steve Cohen5 filingsthrough 2026
Cheryl Lynn JaegerCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Shared employee, Ofc of the Speaker & Ofc of VA 07; Sr Policy Adv, Maj Leader, Rep. Cantor; Sr Policy Adv, Republican Whip, Rep. Cantor; Sr Policy Adv, Majority Whip, Rep. Blunt; Prof Staff House Committee on E & C; Sr LA to Rep. Cox5 filingsthrough 2026
Ivelisse Alexandra Porroa-GarciaCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Policy Director, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Raul Ruiz; Staff Assistant, Sen. Barbara Boxer5 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen Thomas VoljavecCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Vern Buchanan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Marsha Blackburn5 filingsthrough 2026
Reginald Alexander MccrimmonCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Director Member Services & External Affairs - Congressional Black Caucus; Special Assistant, Staff Assistant - Rep. G. K. Butterfield2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 32 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
