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: the-academy-advisors-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.
2 filings
$30K 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.
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2810113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Michael A MerolaWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: Michael Merola Deputy CoS, Sen. Torricelli
3 filingsthrough 2026
Chelsey Penrod HickmanWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: CoS, LD, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy LD, LA Sen. Larry Craig3 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth ConnollyWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: Assistant Director of Public Health, Office of National Drug Control Policy3 filingsthrough 2026
