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.
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: university-of-california.
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.
68 filings
$21.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
68 filings
$21.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
60 filings
$17M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
57 filings
$19.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
55 filings
$19.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
53 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
52 filings
$14.8M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
48 filings
$17.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
47 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
28 filings
$6.2M 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.
114th Congress
Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1277114th CongressOcean Acidification Research Partnerships Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1561114th CongressWeather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2744114th CongressIntegrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act Amendments of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 34114th Congress21st Century Cures Act8 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Carl Hampus WelliverUniversity of CaliforniaCovered position: Sen. Coons, Leg Fellow; Sen. Boxer, Leg Research Assistant, Staff Assistant
38 filingsthrough 2026
Phillip HarmanUniversity of California36 filingsthrough 2026
Gary FalleUniversity of California36 filingsthrough 2017
Marjorie DuskeUniversity of California32 filingsthrough 2018
Kim Kovacs SavageUniversity of California32 filingsthrough 2016
Crystal MartinezUniversity of CaliforniaCovered position: Sen Feinstein Leg Assnt; Dept Ed Ed Program Specialist Sr Advisor Congressional Affairs Confidential Assnt & Sr Science Policy Advisor; Sen Udall Leg Correspondent LC; Sen Obama LC; Rep Honojosa LC; Dept Edu White House Initiative Hispanic Americans29 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher C CarterUniversity of California27 filingsthrough 2017
David SchroederUniversity of California24 filingsthrough 2014
Julie Clements SmithUniversity of California23 filingsthrough 2021
Kent SpringfieldUniversity of California22 filingsthrough 2026
David BrownUniversity of California17 filingsthrough 2012
Eric AnthonyUniversity of California15 filingsthrough 2026
Lars WaltonUniversity of CaliforniaCovered position: Christopher Cox14 filingsthrough 2012
Brent PalmerUniversity of California10 filingsthrough 2026
Annie NguyenUniversity of California9 filingsthrough 2026
Barbara F PerryUniversity of California8 filingsthrough 2012
Karl Michael EngelbachUniversity of California8 filingsthrough 2010
Michael L TelsonUniversity of California6 filingsthrough 2010
Christopher CohenUniversity of California6 filingsthrough 2009
Michael DriverSquire Patton Boggs5 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer WickreUniversity of California5 filingsthrough 2014
Michael DinoSquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth Langdon-GrayUniversity of California4 filingsthrough 2010
John HamiltonUniversity of California4 filingsthrough 2008
