Public Knowledge — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Public Knowledge
District of Columbia
66 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 11, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$770K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$760K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$10K
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.
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: public-knowledge.
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
14 filings
$79K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
11 filings
$339K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
11 filings
$252K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
9 filings
$303K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$5K 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.
H.R. 3196113th CongressTo amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from adopting certain rules or policies relating to multichannel video programming distributors, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3849117th CongressACCESS Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1273117th CongressMilitary Spouses Retirement Security Act4 filingsthrough 2021
H.J.Res. 129115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Restoring Internet Freedom".4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 779114th CongressFair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
S. 517113th CongressUnlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2552118th CongressCommunity Broadband Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
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.
