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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
66 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 40 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20266 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4040111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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: pearson-education.
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.
BUD
12 filings
$2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$470K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$360K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$500K 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 2026
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 8183119th CongressMATCH Act of 20263 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2587119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 924111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 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.
Sarah DonovanVenable LLP
5 filingsthrough 2026
Yardly Pollas-KimbleVenable LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Bobby Rush4 filingsthrough 2026
John V. DrzewickiVenable LLPCovered position: Staff assistant, Rep. Steve Austria; Policy Advisor, US House of Representatives; Policy Director, House Republican Conference4 filingsthrough 2026
Caroline OlsenVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Member Services, House Republican Conference; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Communications Director, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Secretary, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Assistant, Rep. Pete Sessions; Comms Director, House Rules Committee4 filingsthrough 2026
Abigail G. BishopPearson EducationCovered position: N/A3 filingsthrough 2014
David BonelliVenable LLPCovered position: Dept. of Transportation, NHTSA, Senior Attorney2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
