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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
30 filings
$589K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$567K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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: united-student-aid-funds-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Student Loan Sunshine Act
5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5715110th CongressEnsuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4872112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of 80 mm or less in diameter.2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 6889110th CongressTo extend the authority of the Secretary of Education to purchase guaranteed student loans for an additional year, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7072110th CongressTo make technical corrections in the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
