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: rochester-institute-of-technology.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
59 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
39 filings
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
30 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
21 filings
$960K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
19 filings
$740K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
18 filings
$150K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$150K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
3 filings
$140K 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.
119th Congress
Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act
1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 7892119th CongressNo Aid for Ghost Students Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
S. 4545119th CongressScientific Integrity Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 5077118th CongressCREATE AI Act of 20231 filingthrough 2024
S. 2714118th CongressCREATE AI Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
S. 2901118th CongressStop Campus Hazing Act1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Vanessa Jean HermanRochester Institute of Technology
11 filingsthrough 2026
Meg ThompsonNational Group, LLPCovered position: Partner11 filingsthrough 2011
Ellen S. SmithMww Group6 filingsthrough 2017
Marilyn Ann Berry ThompsonMww Group6 filingsthrough 2014
Joseph RubinMww GroupCovered position: Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. George Gekas; Counsel, Rep. Steve Chabot5 filingsthrough 2019
William PowersMww Group3 filingsthrough 2022
Francisco SabateMww Group2 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 2 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
