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: palm-beach-county.
fees reported
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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.
HCR
12 filings
$326K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$326K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$174K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$60K 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.
4 filings
through 2008
H.R. 1700110th CongressCOPS Improvements Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3150110th CongressAnti-Gang Enforcement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3546110th CongressTo authorize the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program at fiscal year 2006 levels through 2012.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3717110th CongressHealthy Workforce Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1753110th CongressHealthy Workforce Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 231110th CongressA bill to authorize the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program at fiscal year 2006 levels through 2012.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 368110th CongressCOPS Improvements Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 456110th CongressGang Abatement and Prevention Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 990110th CongressFighting Gangs and Empowering Youth Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4849111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2996111th 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.
Paul Van CoverdenUS Strategies8 filingsthrough 2011
Brian BallardBallard Partners4 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.4 filingsthrough 2026
Tola ThompsonBallard PartnersCovered position: Communications Director and Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Carrie Meek (1993-2002); Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Al Lawson (2017-2021)4 filingsthrough 2026
Gerald C WellerUS StrategiesCovered position: Member of Congress for 14 years2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
