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-chicago.
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.
37 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
18 filings
$363K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
1 filing
$20K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 1561114th CongressWeather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4660113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2757113th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20161 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 4159113th CongressAmerica Competes Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2641110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
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 2014
Jonathan MillerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2026
Margaret ThompsonOldaker & Willison, LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Approps., Sen. Approps.9 filingsthrough 2014
Mark William MurrayCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff House Cmte Office6 filingsthrough 2014
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Legis Aide House & Senate Member Office6 filingsthrough 2013
Frank Martin CushingOldaker & Willison, LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff and Staff Dir, House Com. on Approps6 filingsthrough 2012
