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.
Norman D DicksVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives (1977-2012)26 filingsthrough 2019
Kate HallahanTeam Hallahan LLCCovered position: 2006-16, US House: Dem Clerk, Trans Approp SubCmte; 2001-06, US
Senate Prof Staff, Sen Trans Approp SubCmte); 2000-01, FAA Dpty Asst
Admnstr for Gov & Industry Affairs; 1997-2000, US DoT, Sr Policy
Advsr; 1996-97, US DoT: Spec. Asst to the Secy.23 filingsthrough 2024
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Senator Patty Murray (1996-2005)22 filingsthrough 2018
Langston Emerson
The filings
The 20 most recent of 146 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: amazon-web-services.
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.
16 filings
$710K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$670K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
13 filings
$264K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$360K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$280K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$280K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$60K 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.
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 931118th CongressStrengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20246 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2871118th CongressMulti-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8294117th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20234 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Stoney BurkeAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chet Edwards (2006-2008) Chief of Staff, Rep. Will Hurd (2015-2018)17 filingsthrough 2026
Rich BeutelCyrrus Analytics LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor- House Small Business Committee 2005-2006; Policy Advisor- HSGAC- 2007-2009; General Counsel-Commission on Wartime Contracting-2009-2011.17 filingsthrough 2018
Rick DearbornMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, President Donald Trump15 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary K OstroMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin Kelly15 filingsthrough 2026
Dana GreshamMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Doug Jones15 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan DattiloAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee (2017-2018) Senior Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee (2018-2019) Chief Counsel for Antitrust and Bankruptcy, Senate Judiciary (2019 -2021)14 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick Michael LargeAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Steve Palazzo, Legislative Assistant to Rep. Sullivan, Legislative Correspondent to Rep. Charles Boustany14 filingsthrough 2026
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Representative Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess14 filingsthrough 2023
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee12 filingsthrough 2026
Neil MckiernanAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Joe Courtney, Legislative Assistant to John Larson, Staff Assistant to Linda Sanchez11 filingsthrough 2026
Madison SmithCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Majority Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Legislative Assistant, Senator John Cornyn; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Will Hurd; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Roger Williams9 filingsthrough 2023
Austin AgrellaAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Leg Dir, Rep. Will Hurd (2015-2019) Congressional Liaison, NTIA (2019-2020); Special Asst to the President and Deputy Cabinet Secretary, EEOP (2020-2021); Staff Dir for Cyber Sub, House Homeland (2021-2022); Parliamentarian, House Approps (2022-2024)8 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Rogers BurkeAquia Group, LLCCovered position: Rep. Mark Amodei (2012-2013), Director of Operations Rep. Aaron Schock (2013-2015), Dir. of Member Services House Repub Conference (2015-2018), Deputy Chief of Staff Rep. Jason Smith (2018-2020), Deputy Staff Director, Energy and Commerce (2020-2025)6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael HersonAmerican Defense International4 filingsthrough 2023
Sean A. TaylorVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (2001-2002); Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Connie Mack (2000-2001)4 filingsthrough 2019
Michael WeinerVan Ness Feldman, LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Scott FerberKing & Spalding LLP4 filingsthrough 2019
Kendrick B MeekKing & Spalding LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative (FL-17), 2002-20104 filingsthrough 2019
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (2005-2008); Senior Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Jim Davis (2001-2005)4 filingsthrough 2019
Catherine EdmonsonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Henry Cuellar3 filingsthrough 2022
Alexander ("Ander") M. CrenshawKing & Spalding LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative (FL-04), 2001-20173 filingsthrough 2019
Katherine BonnerMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lloyd Smucker; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jeb Bradley; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jeb Bradley; Staff and Press Assistant, Rep. Jeb Bradley2 filingsthrough 2026
Charlie SchreiberMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Law clerk, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 25 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
