37 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Oct 3, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$334K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$334K
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.
Education
EDU
22 filings
$234K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4849111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tylynn R GordonStrategies 36017 filingsthrough 2015
Livia LamStrategies 360Covered position: King County Director, Senator Cantwell7 filingsthrough 2014
Melanie Kuniko Mihara SeeStrategies 360Covered position: Sen. Maria Cantwell7 filingsthrough 2013
Juan Angel HinojosaStrategies 360Covered position: Rep. Bright, Rep. Ellsworth, Sen. Evan Bayh4 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: student-assistance-foundation.
TAX
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
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.
Vincent P ReusingVpr Associates4 filingsthrough 2010
Lauren OvermanStrategies 360Covered position: Budget Analyst, U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget3 filingsthrough 2015
Sara Anne BartlesGallatin Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Crapo, Senate Sergeant at Arms2 filingsthrough 2008
J Joseph HardyGallatin Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Boxer, Rep. Smith2 filingsthrough 2008