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: advantage-capital.
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.
ENG
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
8 filings
$160K 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.
4 filings
through 2008
S. 1239110th CongressNew Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 41110th CongressResearch Competitiveness Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1583111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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 2022
Ben DupuyMindset Advocacy, LLC12 filingsthrough 2011
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Talent; Senior Advisor, Department of Treasury10 filingsthrough 2023
Liz CarterLiz Carter9 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren BakerMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Rob Portman9 filingsthrough 2019
Lisa PetoMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee Majority Staff7 filingsthrough 2023
Michael Richard VottaMindset Advocacy, LLC7 filingsthrough 2013
Ryan LeavittBarker Leavitt, PLLC (Ska Mr. James C. Barker)Covered position: Special Assistant, Law Clerk- Sen. Mike Lee Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent- Sen. Dean Heller Counsel- Sen. Orrin Hatch/Sen. Judiciary Committee Legislative Director/Dept. COS- Rep. John Curtis Legislative Director- Sen. Josh Hawley6 filingsthrough 2026
Damon George MunchusMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Treasury6 filingsthrough 2011
Robert BaileyMindset Advocacy, LLC5 filingsthrough 2011
Neal PatelPatel PartnersCovered position: COS to Deputy Dir. for Mgmt., OMB (EOP); Dep. Assoc. Dir. for Leg Affairs, OMB (EOP); Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Cmte; Comms Dir. & Counsel, Sen. Dean Heller; Comms Dir. & Counsel, Rep. Boustany, Jr.; Comms Dir., Rep. Wilson (SC)4 filingsthrough 2025
Neal PatelBarker Leavitt, PLLC (Ska Mr. James C. Barker)Covered position: COS to Deputy Dir. for Mgmt., OMB (EOP); Deputy Assoc. Dir. for Leg Affairs, OMB (EOP); Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Cmte; Communications Dir. & Counsel, Senator Dean Heller; Communications Dir. & Counsel, Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr.;Com4 filingsthrough 2025
Marc C HebertJones Walker, LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan LosakBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Boozman; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Kline3 filingsthrough 2023
Ryan D IsraelJones Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Katie ClementsBarker Leavitt, PLLC (Ska Mr. James C. Barker)Covered position: Senator Patty Murray - Policy Advisor and Legislative Assistant Congressman Mike Thompson - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, and Staff Assistant1 filingthrough 2026
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, Rep. Nick Rahall1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 14 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
