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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Diann HowlandAmerican Benefits CouncilCovered position: Pension Policy Director for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Pension Policy Advisor of the Senate Finance Committee79 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: american-benefits-council.
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
81 filings
$3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
41 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
14 filings
$730K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
4 filings
$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.
117th Congress
Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021
19 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 423117th CongressEmergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1084116th CongressFamily Savings Act of 201918 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 557114th CongressRetirement Security Act of 201518 filingsthrough 2016
S. 266114th CongressRetirement Security Act of 201518 filingsthrough 2016
S. 972116th CongressRetirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 201917 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2917117th CongressRetirement Parity for Student Loans Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2954117th CongressSecuring a Strong Retirement Act of 202216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.16 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1443117th CongressRetirement Parity for Student Loans Act16 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1730117th CongressRetirement Savings Lost and Found Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1770117th CongressRetirement Security and Savings Act of 202116 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.
Katie Boyd BrittR-Alabama
Bills: S. 424, S. 4400, S. 4498 +5 more
78 filings
1 lobbyist
Bill HagertyR-Tennessee
Bills: S. 424, S. 4917, S. 5139
66 filings
1 lobbyist
George S. HelmyD-New Jersey
Bills: S. 4917
13 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
71 filingsthrough 2026
James KleinAmerican Benefits Council71 filingsthrough 2025
Barbara A. PateDavis & Harman LLP64 filingsthrough 2024
Kathryn SpanglerSpangler Strategies LLCCovered position: Dep. Health Policy Director, Senate HELP Committee36 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn JohnsonAmerican Benefits CouncilCovered position: Attorney advisor, Office of Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury; attorney, Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service32 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas A DavisDavis & Harman LLP31 filingsthrough 2019
Brigen L WintersGroom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means22 filingsthrough 2016
Robert B DavisDavis & Harman LLP19 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn SpanglerAmerican Benefits CouncilCovered position: Dep. Health Policy Director, Senate HELP cmtte19 filingsthrough 2017
Adam McmahonDavis & Harman LLP18 filingsthrough 2026
Paul DennettAmerican Benefits Council16 filingsthrough 2013
Rachel LevyGroom Law Group, Chartered14 filingsthrough 2020
Derek B DornDavis & Harman LLPCovered position: Senior Finance Counsel, Senator Bingaman14 filingsthrough 2015
JAMES M DELAPLANE jrDavis & Harman LLP10 filingsthrough 2011
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation5 filingsthrough 2022
Earl PomeroyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives5 filingsthrough 2022
Robert SigginsAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Earl Pomeroy5 filingsthrough 2022
WILLIAM F SWEETNAM jrGroom Law Group, CharteredCovered position: Benefits Tax Counsel5 filingsthrough 2009
Kenneth W PorterAmerican Benefits Council3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 35 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
