Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Reach Out and Read
Massachusetts
38 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Apr 12, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$859K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$733K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$126K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
37 filings
$854K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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 — 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. 820 112th CongressPrescribe A Book Act6 filingsthrough 2012
- H.R. 1526 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Corey Ahearn Reach Out and ReadCovered position: former staff member for US Senator John Kerry23 filingsthrough 2016
- Karen Anne Johnson Ms. Karen JohnsonCovered position: asst sec us dept of education9 filingsthrough 2012
- Karen Johnson Valente & AssociatesCovered position: Asst. Sec. of Ed. for Leg. and Cong. Aff.6 filingsthrough 2009
- Mark Valente Iii Valente & AssociatesCovered position: Dir., Cong. Rel., OPM
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: reach-out-and-read.