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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
67 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$346K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.6 filingsthrough 2026
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-education-trust.
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.
TAX
5 filings
$83K 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.
119th Congress
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
H.R. 28119th CongressProtection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3393113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate certain tax benefits for educational expenses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements to the child tax credit, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Courtney BolligThe Education Trust
13 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew De FerrantiThe Education Trust6 filingsthrough 2016
Alexander G NockPenn Hill GroupCovered position: DeputyStaffDir; House Committee on Education and Labor; Education Coordinator, House committee on Ed & the Workforce; LegAssoc,House Committee on Ed&Workforce; LegAsst, Congressman Matthew G. Martinez; and Staff Asst, House Comm on Ed & Labor3 filingsthrough 2019
