Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Professional Certification Coalition
District of Columbia
28 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$570K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$570K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$570K on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Craig Saperstein Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPCovered position: Former Legislative Correspondent for Senator John Edwards29 filingsthrough 2026
- Greg Laughlin Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPCovered position: Former U.S. Congressman (TX)19 filingsthrough 2026
- Lacy Clay Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPCovered position: Former U.S. Congressman (MO)9 filingsthrough 2026
- John Thomas Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Cong. Scott W. Taylor, (2017-2018); Chief of Staff, Cong. Scott Rigell, (2016-2016); Legislative Director, Cong. Scott Rigell, (2011-2016); MLA, Cong. Scott Rigell (2011-2011); MLA, Cong. Walter Jones (2007-2011)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: professional-certification-coalition.