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.
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-ohio-state-university.
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.
54 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
52 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
46 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
35 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
33 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
32 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
31 filings
$2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
30 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
26 filings
$1.9M 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.
115th Congress
Law Enforcement Retirement Enhancement Act
11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3084115th CongressCongressional Access to Children's Detention Facilities Act11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 287115th CongressStudent Job Protection Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1121115th CongressCollege Transparency Act10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3000115th CongressPatient Advocacy Transparency Act10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 736115th CongressCollegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
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.
through 2013
Richard S StoddardThe Ohio State University5 filingsthrough 2009
Stephanie MilburnThe Ohio State University2 filingsthrough 2023
Richard Adam WardThe Ohio State University2 filingsthrough 2023
Jennifer Kathryn CarlsonThe Ohio State UniversityCovered position: District Aide, Legislative Assistant2 filingsthrough 2010
Beau IngleThe Ohio State University1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
