Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Southern Conference
South Carolina
4 filings from 1 registrant · 2025–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$40K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$40K
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
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4312 119th CongressSCORE Act5 filingsthrough 2026
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.
- Michael Beer Alignment Government Strategies4 filingsthrough 2026
- Mike Smullen Alignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Johnson; Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Austria; Chief of Staff, LD, LA, and LC, Rep. Steve Chabot; Deputy Staff Director, House Small Business Committee4 filingsthrough 2025
- Michael Smullen Alignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Johnson; Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Austria; Chief of Staff, LD, LA, and LC, Rep. Steve Chabot; Deputy Staff Director, House Small Business Committee2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-southern-conference.