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.
Christian KierigKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Sen. Feinstein (1995-2001) - Legislative Assistant41 filingsthrough 2026
Mark KadeshKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Harman (1995-1997) - Chief of Staff; Sen. Feinstein (1998-2007) - Legislative Director & Chief of Staff41 filingsthrough 2026
Dave Kirk RameyKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. Ken Calvert (1993 - October 2016) - Chief of Staff
The filings
The 20 most recent of 140 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: alaska-airlines-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
37 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
32 filings
$11.7M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
28 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN
13 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
13 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Postal
POS
8 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$2.1M 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.
115th Congress
Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017
14 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 202413 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
S. 762116th CongressAviation Funding Stability Act of 20197 filingsthrough 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.
39 filings
through 2026
Kate GeldakerAlaska Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Mark Begich (Staff Ass., Leg. Corr., Leg. Aide); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Leg. Ass., Sen. Leg. Ass).35 filingsthrough 2026
Ben MillerKadesh & Associates, LLCCovered position: Rep. George Miller (2003-2012) - Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff; Rep. Huffman (2013-2020) - Chief of Staff22 filingsthrough 2026
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary and Consultant, Department of Homeland Security21 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn Christensen MillsMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)20 filingsthrough 2026
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)20 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy PunkeMonument AdvocacyCovered position: International Trade Counsel, Chief International Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; International Trade Advisor, National Economic Council, White House19 filingsthrough 2026
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sue Myrick18 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy16 filingsthrough 2022
Amanda WantAlaska Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Mitch McConnell (KY), U.S. Senate Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Boozman (AR), U.S. Senate Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Martha McSally (AZ), U.S. Senate12 filingsthrough 2026
James HuddlestonAlaska Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR), U.S. House of Representatives12 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan AlphinMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Public Affairs Liaison & Leg. Assistant, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; Leg. Assistant, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); Staff Assistant, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Intern, Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)5 filingsthrough 2025
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX); Deputy Executive Secretary and Confidential Assistant, Office of U.S. Trade Representative5 filingsthrough 2021
John Andrew MurrayMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Communications Director, Republican Whip, Eric Cantor (R-VA), Deputy Chief of Staff, Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA)5 filingsthrough 2021
Margaret CummiskyAlaska Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Department of Commerce, U.S. Senate - Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Office of Senator Inouye2 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Allen HawksMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)2 filingsthrough 2021
Lilia Mcfarland HorderMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst, Office of Congressional Relations USDA, Legislative Analyst, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA ,New and Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program Coordinator USDA, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA1 filingthrough 2023
