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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
76 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
28 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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.
David M. SpoonerBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce to Import Administration; Chief Textile & Apparel Negotiator to Office of U.S. Trade Representative; Chief of Staff to Rep. Sue Myrick; Legislative Counsel to Rep. Wes Cooley34 filingsthrough 2026
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX); Deputy Executive Secretary and Confidential Assistant, Office of U.S. Trade Representative22 filingsthrough 2026
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 108 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: alcoa-corporation.
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.
ENV
28 filings
$900K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
25 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
23 filings
$890K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$120K 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.
22 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander David LurieDentons US LLPCovered position: COS, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, COS; Sen. Frank Lautenberg; Dep. Staff Dir, Senate Budget Committee19 filingsthrough 2021
Andrew ShawDentons US LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Dennis Moore17 filingsthrough 2021
Timothy PunkeMonument AdvocacyCovered position: International Trade Counsel, Chief International Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; International Trade Advisor, National Economic Council, White House16 filingsthrough 2023
Chris FetzerDentons US LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst. to Senator Elizabeth Dole;14 filingsthrough 2020
Brandon Joseph AudapMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Intern, Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA), Senior Tax Staff Assistant, Majority Tax Staff, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives11 filingsthrough 2026
Mark DelaquilBaker & Hostetler LLP7 filingsthrough 2020
Ryan SpanglerMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Scheduler, Senator Joseph Biden5 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2010
Rich ThomasMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Asst, ; ; and Legislative Director Rep. Bill Pascrell5 filingsthrough 2010
Jessica Rae Herrera-FlaniganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Trial Attorney and Senior Counsel, Computer Crime & ; ; Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. ; ; Department of Justice; Counsel, Deputy Staff Director, ; ; General Counsel, and Staff Director, House Committee on ; ; Homeland Security5 filingsthrough 2010
Jane AlonsoMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant, Sen. Susan ; ; Collins; Professional Staff Member, Senate Governmental ; ; Affairs Committee; Political Section Intern, Department of ; ; State; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Bob Graham ; ; Scheduler and Executive Assistant, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen5 filingsthrough 2010
Scott CorleyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep Jim Rogan; Senior Legislative ; ; Assistant, Sen. George Allen5 filingsthrough 2010
Colin BortnerMonument Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2010
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant, ; ; Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant ; ; Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on the Judiciary; Legislative Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on Rules and Administration; Legislative Counsel, ; ; Senator John Warner; Outside Consultant, House Committee on ; ; Oversight; Lead Staffer Sen. Republican High Tech Task Force5 filingsthrough 2010
Mark WellerDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan SohnDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Lora RiesMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Acting Director, Deputy Director, and Branch Chief for Law ; ; Enforcement & Intelligence, Mission Operations US-VISIT, ; ; Department of Homeland Security; Policy Director for ; ; Immigration, Border and Transportation Security, Department ; ; of Homeland Security; Counsel, House Committee on the ; ; Judiciary; Assistant District Counsel, Immigrations and ; ; Naturalization Service, Department of Homeland Security ; ; Attorney, Executive Office for Immigration Review, ; ; Department of Justice4 filingsthrough 2010
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern3 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas WotkaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 filingsthrough 2026
Cara MorrowAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dept. of Commerce Intl Trade Admin., Dir. of Policy (Feb 2021-Oct. 2023); Sr. advsr, USTR, (Oct. 2023-Jan.2025).1 filingthrough 2026
Kelly Ann ShawAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Depty. Assistant, President for International Economic Affairs, Depty Director, National Economic Council 2018-2019; Trade Counsel Committee on Ways and Means, 2016-2018; Legislative Correspondent Congressman George Nethercutt, 2004.1 filingthrough 2026
Aaron ThieleBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Prof Staf Mem-Sen Interior Aprop Com; LA-Sen Murkowski; Sr Adv-Cong&Leg Afr, DoI; Advnce Rep-Off of Sec, DoI; LA-Rep Zinke; Sr Staf Ass-MajLdr McCarthy; Sr Staf As-MajWhip McCarthy; Staf As-Rep McCarthy;Int-MajWhip McCarthy;Int-McCarthy;Int-McCarthy1 filingthrough 2026
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 001 filingthrough 2025
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin.1 filingthrough 2025
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS (Dec 07 - Dec 11), Press Secy (Dec 04 - Dec 07), Dep Press Secy (Dec 02 - Dec 04) to Sen Inhofe1 filingthrough 2025
