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: scholastic-inc.
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.
10 filings
$350K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$20K 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
Striving Readers Act of 2007
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 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.
Rose AnelloScholastic, Inc.
10 filingsthrough 2011
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Director for Leg. Affairs at OMB10 filingsthrough 2010
Ian P MusselmanAcg Advocacy9 filingsthrough 2010
Joshua F HurvitzAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner9 filingsthrough 2010
Karen JohnsonValente & AssociatesCovered position: Asst. Sec. of Ed. for Leg. and Cong. Aff.7 filingsthrough 2009
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman6 filingsthrough 2010
Amy CarnevaleK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. George Nethercutt, Jr.3 filingsthrough 2025
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer3 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration3 filingsthrough 2025
Liz RobbinsScholastic, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2013
Karen JohnsonScholastic, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Secretary US Department of Education3 filingsthrough 2013
Susan FrostEducation Priorities3 filingsthrough 2009
Christiana GoffK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2025
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. KennedyPolitical Director, Sen. Edward M. KennedyLegislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. KennedySpecial Assistant, Sen. Edward M. KennedyStaff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy2 filingsthrough 2014
David LangeScholastic, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2008
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
Michael F ScanlonK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2025
Michael ScanlonScholastic, Inc.1 filingthrough 2025
Kevin DiscepoloScholastic, Inc.Covered position: Danny Weiss1 filingthrough 2013
David UrbanScholastic, Inc.1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 14 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
