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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Jodey C. ArringtonR-Texas-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 14, H.J.Res. 27, H.R. 1 +4 more
254 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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: 3m-company.
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.
ENV
117 filings
$58.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
117 filings
$54.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
110 filings
$57.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
103 filings
$57.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
94 filings
$57.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
93 filings
$52.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
91 filings
$54.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
84 filings
$54.1M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
76 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
76 filings
$49.4M 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.
114th Congress
Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act
20 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 535116th CongressPFAS Action Act of 201917 filingsthrough 2020
S. 638116th CongressPFAS Action Act of 201917 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act17 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 523113th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 201317 filingsthrough 2014
S. 232113th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act17 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.16 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 890111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.16 filingsthrough 2010
S. 936117th CongressINFORM Consumers Act14 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.14 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1885115th CongressAV START Act13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 632114th CongressSTRONG Patents Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
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.
through 2016
William H HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc32 filingsthrough 2016
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc32 filingsthrough 2016
Sudafi HenryThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: ​Legislative Director for Rep. Major Owens; Legislative Director for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver; Counsel & Sr. Policy Advisor for Rep. Steny Hoyer; Asst. and Dir. of Legislative Affairs for VP Joe Biden27 filingsthrough 2026
ARTHUR E CAMERON srArthur E Cameron24 filingsthrough 2014
Taylor Bowlden3m Company22 filingsthrough 2014
Monica PoppMarshall & Popp, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff/Deputy Chief of Staff-Office of Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn; Professional Staff Member, U.S. House of Representatives-Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Assistant-Senator Jim DeMint21 filingsthrough 2024
Hazen Clay MarshallMarshall & Popp, LLCCovered position: Policy Director-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell; Staff Director/Senate Budget Committee-Senator Don Nickles; Deputy Chief of Staff/Economist, Office of Assistant Majority Leader-Senator Don Nickles; Legislative Assistant-Senator Don Nickles21 filingsthrough 2024
Andrea Hechavarria3m CompanyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Joni Ernst; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide & Legislative Correspondent to Senator Mike Johanns; Staff Assistant to Senator Judd Gregg; Staff Assistant to Senator John E. Sununu15 filingsthrough 2021
Omar Vargas3m Company14 filingsthrough 2021
David Patrick RobertsonConfluence Government RelationsCovered position: Deputy to the Chief of Staff, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Leg. Aide & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Rockefeller13 filingsthrough 2022
Pamela ThiessenThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Legis. Dir., July 2009-Feb. 2011, Sen. Ensign; Sr. Policy Advisor, July 2009-Sept., Joint Economic Committee; Staff Dir., Jan. 2009-July 2009, Sen. Republican Policy Committee; Legis. Dir., Feb. 2001-2009, Sen. Ensign.12 filingsthrough 2026
Brittany Masalosalo3m CompanyCovered position: Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States (VPOTUS)12 filingsthrough 2021
Kyle CormneyFti Government AffairsCovered position: Legislative Director to Congressman Tom Price, Legislative Assistant to Congressman Tom Price, Senior Policy Advisor to the House Budget Committee.12 filingsthrough 2019
Omar FrancoBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart11 filingsthrough 2023
Anthony BedellBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.Covered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs, Department of Transportation11 filingsthrough 2023
Scott StylesFti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions.Leg. Aide, State Department.11 filingsthrough 2019
Dan Veoni3m Company11 filingsthrough 2019
Jeffrey Rageth3m Company11 filingsthrough 2011
James Savage3m CompanyCovered position: Staffer, U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder.10 filingsthrough 2026
