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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
37 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET
3 filings
$160K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.4 filingsthrough 2013
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Todd MetcalfPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Democratic Chief Tax Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Tax Counsel, Sen. Ron Wyden; Director of Floor Operations / Counsel, Office of Majority Whip; Leg. Director & Tax Counsel, Rep. W. Jefferson; Leg. Director & Counsel, Rep. M. Sandlin19 filingsthrough 2026
Pamela OlsonPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, US Treasury Department14 filingsthrough 2018
Mark S. SmithPricewaterhousecoopers14 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew B LyonPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Dep. Asst. Secretary for Tax Analysis, Treasury Department
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 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-council-of-life-insurers-acli.
fees reported
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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.
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.
10 filingsthrough 2018
Mark PraterPricewaterhousecoopers7 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir. ; ; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant ; ; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Asst. ; ; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Corr.6 filingsthrough 2014
Hazen MarshallThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Staff Director ; ; Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Dpty CofS ; ; Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Economist ; ; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant6 filingsthrough 2014
Karl RussoPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Senior Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation1 filingthrough 2024
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator1 filingthrough 2013
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff ; ; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Assistant Secretary ; ; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Assistant Secretary ; ; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv. ; ; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv. ; ; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 8 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
