Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Word and Brown Companies
California
30 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$330K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$330K
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.
Health Issues
HCR
30 filings
$330K on those filings
Insurance
INS
21 filings
$250K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Timothy W Jenkins Ballard Spahr LLP32 filingsthrough 2026
- Brent Heberlee Ballard Spahr LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst and Director, Sen. Richard Bryan19 filingsthrough 2023
- Maria Tripplaar Ballard Spahr LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir., Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir. & Counsel, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Comm. on Veterans' Affairs, House of Rep.14 filingsthrough 2026
- Sherry Harper Widicus Ballard Spahr LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Director
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: the-word-and-brown-companies.