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: activision-blizzard-inc.
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.
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
1 filing
$10K 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.
117th Congress
United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
6 filingsthrough 2014
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld6 filingsthrough 2014
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen5 filingsthrough 2023
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs5 filingsthrough 2023
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham, Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor5 filingsthrough 2023
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence5 filingsthrough 2023
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst., Sen. McConnell, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Aide, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Appropriations Coordinator, Sen. McConnell, Sr. Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Chief of Staff, Sen. McCo5 filingsthrough 2023
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House5 filingsthrough 2023
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering5 filingsthrough 2023
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole5 filingsthrough 2023
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)5 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan SchwantesClark & Weinstock5 filingsthrough 2011
Niles GodesClark & WeinstockCovered position: Dir of Econ. Development, Sen. Kent ConradLeg. Asst. Sen. Quentin Burdick5 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Asst. House Republican Whip5 filingsthrough 2011
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 Comm3 filingsthrough 2023
