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.
Sarah CastroUniversity of Washington62 filingsthrough 2026
Tony J WilliamsWashington2 Advocates55 filingsthrough 2023
Sang HanUniversity of Washington45 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff BjornstadWashington2 AdvocatesCovered position: Chief of Staff Senator Patty Murray; Chief of Staff Rep. Rick Larsen; Chief of Staff Rep. Adam Smith
The filings
The 20 most recent of 198 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-washington.
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.
80 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
52 filings
$10.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
42 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
37 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
36 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
24 filings
$915K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
20 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
15 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$2.5M 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.
117th Congress
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5629110th CongressPathway for Biosimilars Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5719110th CongressTaxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 20084 filingsthrough 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.
Paul GayStrategic Marketing Innovations25 filingsthrough 2020
Kristen MichalWashington2 Advocates25 filingsthrough 2016
Christy GullionUniversity of Washington25 filingsthrough 2016
Denny M MillerDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA16 filingsthrough 2012
Shay Michael HancockDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA15 filingsthrough 2011
Tom LuceDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA14 filingsthrough 2011
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Patty Murray (1996-2005)11 filingsthrough 2017
Norman D DicksVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Member of Congress (1977-2013)11 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan Tristram David NurseUniversity of Washington9 filingsthrough 2011
Wally BurnettDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA8 filingsthrough 2010
Sam SpinaDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA7 filingsthrough 2008
Timothy LovainDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA7 filingsthrough 2008
Cara GavaganDenny Miller AssociatesCovered position: NA7 filingsthrough 2008
Brian BallardBallard Partners6 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.6 filingsthrough 2026
