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-miami.
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.
89 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
59 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
54 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
36 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
25 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
23 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
13 filings
$281K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
12 filings
$990K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
9 filings
$750K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$580K 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
S. 693111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2407110th CongressNational Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2531110th CongressImproved Hurricane Tracking and Forecasting Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1509110th CongressImproved Hurricane Tracking and Forecasting Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 39110th CongressOcean and Coastal Exploration and NOAA Act (OCEAN Act)4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 931110th CongressNational Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.32 filingsthrough 2017
Shreya KuntawalaUniversity of Miami24 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.23 filingsthrough 2026
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.22 filingsthrough 2022
Justin J. SayfieBallard PartnersCovered position: Commissioner, Commission on White House Fellows.19 filingsthrough 2025
Callan James SmithDentons US LLPCovered position: Policy Research Assistant, Senate Finance Committee; Staff Assistant to Senator Max Baucus18 filingsthrough 2026
