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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
71 filings
$3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
49 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 55 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 9026119th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside, New York, as the "Detective Luis G. Alvarez Post Office".4 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 9028119th CongressPRC Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers Moratorium Act
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
David WetmoreCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LA-Sen Pete Wilson, Snr LA-Sen John Seymour54 filingsthrough 2020
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Director and Counsel, Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Republican Staff Director, Committee on Science & Technology; Legislative Director, Congressman Ralph M. Hall;Deputy Communications Director/Leg Asst, Congressman Ralph M. Hall
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: san-diego-state-university-research-foundation.
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.
45 filings
$2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
33 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
13 filings
$570K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
10 filings
$290K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$120K 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.
S. 4795119th CongressFREEDOM Act4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 4796119th CongressStock Buyback Accountability Act of 20264 filingsthrough 2025
S. 4942119th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20264 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4016119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 132116th CongressNorth American Development Bank Improvement Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3895116th CongressNorth American Development Bank’s Pollution Solution Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4039116th CongressBorder Water Infrastructure Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2580116th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2671116th CongressBreak the Cycle of Violence Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
22 filingsthrough 2026
Julie Adair MinervaCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LA to Rep Robert Matsui20 filingsthrough 2020
Eric Lewis SwedlundCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LD to Rep Stephen Horn13 filingsthrough 2018
Laura Morgan-KesslerCarpi & Clay, Inc11 filingsthrough 2020
Christine GodinezSan Diego State University Research FoundationCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Homeland Security; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dina Titus (NV-01); Policy Associate/Staff Assistant, House Committee on Education and the Workforce4 filingsthrough 2026
Channon Clements HannaCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation4 filingsthrough 2020
