Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Silica Fume Assn
Virginia
64 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 7, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$960K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$960K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$960K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
46 filings
$655K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Caroline Vilchez Genesis Group LLCCovered position: Principal68 filingsthrough 2026
- Mark Brian Benedict Genesis Group LLCCovered position: Managing Partner/Attorney At Law68 filingsthrough 2026
- Charles Blachford Genesis Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Consultant15 filingsthrough 2014
- Dean Willett Genesis Group LLCCovered position: Administrative Partner
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: silica-fume-assn.