Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Urban Libraries Council
District of Columbia
10 filings from 1 registrant · 2024–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$600K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$600K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Education
EDU
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 6655 118th CongressA Stronger Workforce for America Act4 filingsthrough 2024
- S. 3075 118th CongressAdult Education WORKS Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Andrew Kauders Cogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spksperson/Asst. to D. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency11 filingsthrough 2026
- Claudia James Cogent Strategies LLC11 filingsthrough 2026
- Taylor Mccarty Hoover Cogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Comm. Dir., Rep Glenn "GT" Thompson; Comm. Dir., House Ag. Cmte11 filingsthrough 2026
- Randall Gerard Cogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Asst., Sen. Commerce, Science & Transportation Cmte.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: urban-libraries-council.