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.
Health Issues
HCR
46 filings
$490K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$330K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2026
Christian KierigKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Sen. Feinstein (1995-2001) - Legislative Assistant53 filingsthrough 2026
Mark KadeshKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Harman (1995-1997) - Chief of Staff; Sen. Feinstein (1998-2007) - Legislative Director & Chief of Staff53 filingsthrough 2026
Dave Kirk RameyKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Ken Calvert (1993 - October 2016) - Chief of Staff23 filingsthrough 2026
Warren WeinsteinKadesh & Associates, LLC Sen. Feinstein (1999-2003)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 51 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: rady-childrens-hospital-san-diego.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 10545119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20261 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 9260119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
S. 4942119th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
Covered position:
21 filingsthrough 2016
Ben MillerKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. George Miller (2003-2012) - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff; Rep. Huffman (2013-2020) - Chief of Staff18 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
