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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
18 filings
$830K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John WhitcombFti Government Affairs36 filingsthrough 2026
BRIAN PAPP JR. jrFti Government AffairsCovered position: Staff Dir, Sen Fin Subcomm on Intl Trade,21,Sen Carper 21;Sr Pol Adv, Sen Carper 19-21;Leg Assist, Sen Carper 17-19;Prf Staff Mem, Comm on Hmlnd Sec & Gov Affairs 15-17;Leg Aide, Comm on Hmlnd Sec & Gov Affairs 14-15;Const Serv Rep, Sen Carper 11-1413 filingsthrough 2025
ROBERT CRAMER jrFti Government AffairsCovered position: Former Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives11 filingsthrough 2021
Joe MarinelliFti Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Legislative Aide, Legislative Aide, LC, Staff Assistant, Sen. Thomas Carper 16-22.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: adtran.
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$200K 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.
10 filingsthrough 2025
Garrison GriffinFti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Dale Strong; Dep. Leg. Dir., Sen. Mike Braun; Dep. Chief of Staff, USTR Robert Lighthizer; Staff Asst., Rep. Spencer Bachus; Legis. Correspondent, Sen. Jeff Sessions6 filingsthrough 2026
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrFti Government Affairs4 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth RothenbergerFti Government Affairs2 filingsthrough 2026
Abigail AveryFti Government Affairs2 filingsthrough 2021
Tess PetersonFti Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
