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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Foreign Relations
FOR
13 filings
$67K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$27K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6520110th CongressTo increase global stability and security for the United States and the international community by reducing the number of individuals who are de jure or de facto stateless and at risk of being trafficked.6 filingsthrough 2008
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: refugees-international.
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.
2 filings
$13K 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.
110th Congress
Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2265110th CongressResponsibility to Iraqi Refugees Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5927110th CongressInternational Violence Against Women Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6496110th CongressIraqi Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement, and Security Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.Res. 426110th CongressRecognizing 2007 as the Year of the Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia, and offering support for efforts to ensure that the internally displaced people of Colombia receive the assistance and protection they need to rebuild their lives successfully.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.Res. 726110th CongressCalling on the President of the United States and the international community to take immediate steps to respond to and prevent acts of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Darfur, Sudan, eastern Chad and the Central African Republic.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2279110th CongressInternational Violence Against Women Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2829110th CongressA bill to make technical corrections to section 1244 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which provides special immigrant status for certain Iraqis, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3177110th CongressA bill to develop a policy to address the critical needs of Iraqi refugees.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 613110th CongressReconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1651110th CongressRefugee Crisis in Iraq Act3 filingsthrough 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.
2 filings
through 2025
Keith SternCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Sr Advsr, House Dem Whip Katherine Clark; Dir of Floor Ops, House Spkr Pelosi; Dir of Floor Ops, House Dem Leader Pelosi; COS Rep James P. McGovern/House Rules Comm (shared); Rules Assoc, Rep James P. McGovern/House Rules Comm (shared)2 filingsthrough 2025
Sean GarciaRefugees International2 filingsthrough 2008
