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-music-publishers-association.
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.
TRD
45 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
20 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$167K 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.
H.R. 3350115th CongressTransparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 42112th CongressEntitled the "Creativity and Innovation Resolution".8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Christopher Steven CylkeNational Music Publishers' AssociationCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Rod Grams (R-MN)20 filingsthrough 2017
Carlyle ThorsenRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: General Counsel & AA, Rep. Tom DeLay; Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Legislative Counsel, Rep. McCollum and LoBiondo20 filingsthrough 2015
William BarloonBARLOON.CO18 filingsthrough 2024
Jay RosenthalNational Music Publishers' Association18 filingsthrough 2014
Jane LucasAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, White House Office of Legislative Affairs; Principal Deputy Director, IOS-Office of Health Reform, HHS; Legislative Director, Sen. John Thune (R-SD). All lobbying activities conducted in compliance with EO 13770.16 filingsthrough 2023
Evan CollierAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Staff Assistant, Rep. Jeff Denham13 filingsthrough 2023
Shannon SorensenNational Music Publishers' AssociationCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Jason Chaffetz11 filingsthrough 2019
Cristina KrasowTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Executive Office, Senate Sergeant at Arms11 filingsthrough 2013
Josef NovotnyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Clerk of the House - Miller, Haas, Johnson10 filingsthrough 2026
Stacy McbrideHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Senator Blunt - Chief of Staff10 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher James BarkleyNational Music Publishers' AssociationCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) May 2019 - Jan 202410 filingsthrough 2026
Berkley Etheridge SchwarzNational Music Publishers' Association10 filingsthrough 2011
Jason C. ScismBridge Street Group, LLCCovered position: Rep John Mica - Special Project Coord(6/98-10/98) and Leg Asst (10/98 - 11/98); House Commerce Comm - Staff Asst - 11/98-7/99;Clerk - 7/99 - 8/2000; Rep Darrell Issa Counsel 3/2005-5/2010 and Leg Dir, 4/08 -5/10; Oversight Comm, Counsel 08/08-12/087 filingsthrough 2016
Jacqueline CharlesworthCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights6 filingsthrough 2018
Megan FarrellTiber Creek Group6 filingsthrough 2014
Robert C JonesAlston & Bird LLP5 filingsthrough 2019
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Dick Gephardt5 filingsthrough 2013
Sheila MurphyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: LD, Senator Klobuchar5 filingsthrough 2011
