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
129 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
61 filings
$6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3221112th CongressJob Creation and Energy Efficiency Act12 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3035112th CongressMobile Informational Call Act of 2011
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Scott E MillerPennsylvania Higher Education Assistance AgencyCovered position: Director of Federal Relations52 filingsthrough 2019
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB46 filingsthrough 2021
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter36 filingsthrough 2018
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: pennsylvania-higher-education-assistance-agency.
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.
COM
33 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
1 filing
$110K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$110K 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.
9 filings
through 2012
H.R. 2669110th CongressCollege Cost Reduction and Access Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3826112th CongressTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5715110th CongressEnsuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2669111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 2815110th CongressStrengthening Student Aid for All Act1 filingthrough 2008
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 filings
through 2023
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen11 filingsthrough 2022
William LindseyPennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency10 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman9 filingsthrough 2021
Brent HeberleeBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst and Director, Sen. Richard Bryan9 filingsthrough 2020
Timothy W JenkinsBallard Spahr LLP9 filingsthrough 2020
Rich MeadePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2023
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Representative John Shadegg; Legislative Assistant, Representative Chris Cox; Legislative Assistant, Pat Toomey7 filingsthrough 2015
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2003-2004: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2004-2005: Press Secretary/Legislative Director, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2005-2007: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Rahall (WV-03)4 filingsthrough 2022
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation3 filingsthrough 2022
IRVING E. DANIELS jrPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1992-1993: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Fellow, Rep. Charlie Rangel; 1993-1996: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Floyd Flake (D-NY), House Banking Committee3 filingsthrough 2022
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-2002: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-2007: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-2008: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-2017: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House3 filingsthrough 2021
Eriade WilliamsAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretrary - Rep. Albert Wynn2 filingsthrough 2019
Scott MillerStevens & Lee2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 14 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
