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: santa-clara-county.
fees reported
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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.
13 filings
$750K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
13 filings
$690K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$550K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
8 filings
$340K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Housing
HOU
5 filings
$310K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
5 filings
$250K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 3288111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1647114th CongressDeveloping a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3293111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5021113th CongressHighway and Transportation Funding Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2322113th CongressMAP-21 Reauthorization Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 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.
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation14 filingsthrough 2024
Victoria Schiller GivensPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2014
Mark DislerPrime Policy Group7 filingsthrough 2018
Jerry KlepnerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2011
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)6 filingsthrough 2026
Paul BrownBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Becky B WeberBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Victoria SchillerBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Jerry KlepnerBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Paul Dustin WeissPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2004-2005: Chief of Staff, Resident Commissioner Anibal Acevedo-Vila (PR-AL)5 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth Hart ThompsonPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 02-04 Leg Asst, Rep Baron Hill (D-IN-09) 05-06 Leg Director, Rep Melissa Bean (D-IL-08) 06-09 Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep Melissa Bean (D-IL, 08) 09-11 Chief of Staff, Rep Melissa Bean (D-IL-08) 11-15 Chief of Staff, Rep John Carney (D-DE)5 filingsthrough 2019
