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
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Small Business
SMB · 1 client
68 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
2 filings
$60K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Brett PalmerCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce67 filings1 client · through 2026
Netonis Wybensinger40 filings1 client · through 2026
William Brandon GardnerCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Scott Subcommittee Staff Director, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs22 filings1 client · through 2021
Christopher Walters22 filings1 client · through 2017
Justin PelletierCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Small Business Committee Deputy Staff Director, House Small Business Committee Staff, Rep. Nydia Velazquez
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: small-business-investor-alliance.
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 $0 in fees and $8.8M in expenses.
money on filings that named this issue
15 filings1 client · through 2026
Christopher B HayesCovered position: None14 filings1 client · through 2017
Tristan Thorgersen9 filings1 client · through 2026
Celia GlassmanCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator James Risch5 filings1 client · through 2022
Catherine KuerbitzCovered position: Staff, US Senate5 filings1 client · through 2018
Lee W Mercer5 filings1 client · through 2008
Nicholas Andrews4 filings1 client · through 2017
Carmen Canavan3 filings1 client · through 2019
Andrew Huff1 filing1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 6 of 13 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.
