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.
Jonathan SimonVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 1993-1994Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 199559 filingsthrough 2026
Tim StewartThe Bennett Consulting GroupCovered position: Staffer, House Resources Committee56 filingsthrough 2026
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: america-outdoors-association.
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.
LBR
27 filings
$155K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$40K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$50K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
1 filing
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.
S. 1665116th CongressSOAR Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3499119th CongressOutdoor Recreational Outfitting and Guiding Act5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 453112th CongressMotorcoach Enhanced Safety Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3266117th CongressAmerica’s Outdoor Recreation Act of 20224 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.
13 filings
through 2014
Steven PetersenThe Bennett Consulting Group8 filingsthrough 2025
