Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
James Backlin
Maryland
42 filings · 1 client · 1 lobbyist registered · 2010–2021 · latest filed Apr 20, 2021
Fees billed to clients
$235K
every LD-2 fee on file
Its own lobbying spend
$0
none reported
Clients represented
1
1 lobbyist registered
Revenue 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 they lobby for
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $235K in fees and $0 in expenses.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM · 1 client
42 filings
$235K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM · 1 client
42 filings
$235K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- James P BacklinCovered position: Family Issues Consultant45 filings1 client · through 2021
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: james-backlin.