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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
64 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
62 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2010112th CongressFamily and Retirement Health Investment Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1098112th CongressFamily and Retirement Health Investment Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC29 filingsthrough 2016
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC29 filingsthrough 2016
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln27 filingsthrough 2016
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLC Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means; Member, Joint Committee on Taxation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: american-bankers-association-hsa-council.
10 filings
$300K 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.
116th Congress
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 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.
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC10 filingsthrough 2012
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte on Small Business ; ; LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson ; ; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell10 filingsthrough 2012
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.8 filingsthrough 2020
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard Neal.8 filingsthrough 2020
Charles Patrick MichaelsCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Schweikert; Staff Assistant, Rep. Ted Budd; Intern, Senator James DeMint.5 filingsthrough 2026
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means5 filingsthrough 2016
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant ot the House Majority Leader5 filingsthrough 2010
Zahra BuckCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LA, Rep. Bennie Thompson ; ; Professional Staff, House Homeland Security Cmte5 filingsthrough 2010
John MartinCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Principal Associate Commissioner, FDA; Legislative Director, Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant; Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Cotton.4 filingsthrough 2026
Luke HatzisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Cong. Peter Roskam; Republican Clerk, House Rules Committee; Legislative Aide, House Republican Conference; Floor Assistant, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.2 filingsthrough 2024
Nick BouknightCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Chief of Staff/ Communications Dir., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Bill Thomas; Deputy Press Sec., Ways and Means Cmte.; Press Asst., Ways and Means Cmte.2 filingsthrough 2024
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC2 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 15 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
