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-michigan.
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.
EDU
69 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
69 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
69 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
66 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
63 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
54 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
52 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
51 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
42 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
42 filings
$3.4M 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.
116th Congress
Prescription Drug Price Relief Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 377116th CongressMedicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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 2017
Madeline Catherine NykazaUniversity of MichiganCovered position: Sen. Carl Levin - Legislative Assistant (November 2013-March 2014); Leg Aide (May-November 2013); Legislative Correspondent (February 2012-May 2013); Staff Assistant (August 2011 - February 2012) Bob Melendez, Staff Assistant (June-August 2011)22 filingsthrough 2022
Neil CanfieldUniversity of Michigan21 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah WalterUniversity of Michigan11 filingsthrough 2011
Jeremy SteslickiStrategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Director of Appropriations, Sen. Tammy Baldwin; Policy Advisor, Rep. Sander Levin; Legislative Aide, Sen. Carl Levin10 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary WeberUniversity of Michigan9 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel GillardStrategic Marketing Innovations6 filingsthrough 2026
John Edward PorterHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Member of Congress4 filingsthrough 2010
Michael J BellHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Staff Asst Sen., Comm on the Judicary4 filingsthrough 2010
Robert D. KyleHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Chf Int'l Trade Coun. Sen Fin. Comm4 filingsthrough 2010
C. Michael GillilandHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)4 filingsthrough 2010
Amanda BeaumontUniversity of Michigan3 filingsthrough 2023
JeremyStrategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Director of Appropriations, Sen. Tammy Baldwin; Policy Advisor, Rep. Sander Levin; Legislative Aide, Sen. Carl Levin2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
