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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Housing
HOU
46 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Political Director, Senator Christopher Dodd; Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman48 filingsthrough 2026
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter7 filingsthrough 2020
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen6 filingsthrough 2016
Patrick C. GrantAcg Advocacy
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: affordable-housing-developers-council.
46 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$960K 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.
CARES Act
1 filingthrough 2020
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.
Covered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman
5 filingsthrough 2022
Cameron SewardAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Director, Integral Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement - USTR4 filingsthrough 2026
Roberto Adrian FierroAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2022
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2016
Diane TombAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary Public Affairs-HUD; Associate, Office of Business Liaison/Director Public Affairs-ITA; Staff Asst-Office of VP; Special Asst to Counsel of President; Press Assoc-WH1 filingthrough 2026
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB1 filingthrough 2017
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
