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
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Education
EDU
8 filings
$160K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
Rebecca AndersonAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs8 filingsthrough 2025
Michael BeerAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA, Rep. Dave Hobson8 filingsthrough 2025
Bert CarpAlignment Government Strategies8 filingsthrough 2025
Leo C JardotAlignment Government Strategies8 filingsthrough 2025
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: youngstown-state-university.
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.
Jenny Dijames
Alignment Government Strategies
Covered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer
8 filingsthrough 2025
Patrick PetteyAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Bob Smith8 filingsthrough 2025
David RuddAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Fritz Hollings8 filingsthrough 2025
Tracy D TaylorAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Sch. C, Agency for International Development8 filingsthrough 2025
Mike SmullenAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Johnson; Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Austria; Chief of Staff, LD, LA, and LC, Rep. Steve Chabot; Deputy Staff Director, House Small Business Committee8 filingsthrough 2025
Michael SmullenAlignment Government Strategies1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
