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.
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: aca-international.
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.
COM
52 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
26 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
15 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Torts
TOR
8 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$610K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$540K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$50K 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.
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.
Aca International
Covered position: Dep. Chief of Staff/Sr. Policy Advisor; J. Ramstad
19 filingsthrough 2012
George Scott PurcellAca International18 filingsthrough 2026
Rae Ann BevingtonAca International13 filingsthrough 2020
Lucia G LebensAca InternationalCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Norm Coleman13 filingsthrough 2015
Travis Johnson1607 Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator David Vitter; Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy; Legislative Director, Rep John Shadegg; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Rep Tom Price; Staff Assistant, House Committee on Transportation.12 filingsthrough 2022
Patrick RussellAca International11 filingsthrough 2022
Annmarie Conboy-DepasqualeBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Intern Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Leg Intern, Rep. Katherine Clark10 filingsthrough 2026
Emily Threadgill1607 Strategies, LLCCovered position: Director of Scheduling and External Affairs, Small Business Administration; Deputy Director of Member Services, Office of the House Majority Leader; Staff Assistant, Office of the Majority Leader.8 filingsthrough 2022
Phillip J BondPhil Bond & AssociatesCovered position: Undersecretary and CoS to Commerce Secy Evans7 filingsthrough 2016
Leslie DunlapPhil Bond & Associates7 filingsthrough 2016
Howard W WaltzmanMayer Brown LLPCovered position: Chf. Counsel for Telecom., House Comm. Cmte.7 filingsthrough 2012
Katelynn BradleyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Director of Investor and Capital Markets Policy, House Committee on Financial Services; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Financial Services6 filingsthrough 2023
Joann NeedlemanClark Hill, PLC5 filingsthrough 2019
Christie P StolleAca International4 filingsthrough 2016
Travis J NortonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Tim Scott; Staff Dir, Senate Banking Subcomm. on Housing, Transportation, and Community Develop; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Financial Services Comm; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Judiciary Comm3 filingsthrough 2022
Phillip J BondThe Petrizzo Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff Congressman Bob McEwen3 filingsthrough 2012
Luke SadowskiBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Intern, Sen. John Boozman2 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory SunstrumBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff , Rep. Debbie Dingell; Deputy Chief of Staff and Leg. Director, Rep. Debbie Dingell ; Leg. Director, Rep. John Dingell; Leg. Assistant, Rep. John Dingell; Staff Assistant/Leg. Correspondent Rep. John Dingell2 filingsthrough 2023
Milan DalalBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ​Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on Securities, Insurance, and Investments; Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on National Security, International Trade, and Finance; Senior Economic Advisor, Sen. Mark Warner; Legislative Dir, Rep. Gregory Meeks2 filingsthrough 2019
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus // Chief of Staff/Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Labor // Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Labor2 filingsthrough 2015
Jaime R HarrisonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Floor Operations Director & Counsel, House Majority Whip // Executive Director, House Democratic Caucus // Policy Adviser, Rep. James Clyburn2 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Rep. Dennis Moore // Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Rep. Max Sandlin2 filingsthrough 2015
Marc LampkinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Dir Senate Republican Conf Sectys office, General Counsel House Republican Conference, Staff/Counsel House Education and Labor Comm1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 19 of 33 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
