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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
60 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$440K 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 — 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 37 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3461113th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1086113th CongressChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 201410 filingsthrough 2014
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: ounce-of-prevention.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Student Success Act
8 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20165 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1697113th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2411114th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1380114th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
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.
19 filingsthrough 2015
Sarah DonovanDla Piper LLP (US)15 filingsthrough 2018
Dena BattleBattle Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Dave Camp '99-'01; Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith '96-'99 & '0210 filingsthrough 2018
Douglas MccormackLinchpin Strategies, LLCCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2009
Nathaniel James BellDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Robert Andrews4 filingsthrough 2014
Anne KierigDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Office Counsel, Sen. Richard Durbin; Legislative Assistant and Director of Correspondence, Sen. Richard Durbin; Legislative Assistant, Director of Special Projects, Sen. Dianne Feinstein2 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew KentDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Charles Dent; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom Marino; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Louie Gohmert2 filingsthrough 2018
Lanier Swann HodgsonDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Staff to Sen. E. Dole and Rep. W. Jones2 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 12 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
