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
43 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$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 — 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.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1605119th CongressInternational Competition for American Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey LeveyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)40 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 LD to Rep. John Kasich ; ; 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi16 filingsthrough 2019
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 93-95 Tax Counsel/LD to Sen Max Baucus; 97-99 Chief Tax Counsel, SFC-Dem Staff12 filingsthrough 2018
Rebecca BurchErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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-express-travel-related-services.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019
3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3474113th CongressHire More Heroes Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4429113th CongressPermanent Active Financing Exception Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 178116th CongressUIGHUR Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 5444115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize and improve the Internal Revenue Service, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grant program, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for the issuance of identity protection personal identification numbers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow officers and employees of the Department of the Treasury to provide to taxpayers information regarding low-income taxpayer clinics, to provide for a single point of contact at the Internal Revenue Service for the taxpayers who are victims of tax-related identity theft, to require notice from the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of any closure of a Taxpayer Assistance Center, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require electronic filing of the annual returns of exempt organizations and provide for making such returns available for public inspection, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve cybersecurity and taxpayer identity protection, and modernize the information technology of the Internal Revenue Service, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restrict the immediate sale of seized property by the Secretary of the Treasury to perishable goods, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2018
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.
Jessica CameronErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Leg. Asst., House Ways & Means Com. - 2011-2014, Counsel, Speaker of the House - 2017-197 filingsthrough 2025
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 91-94 Sr. Leg.Asst & Comm. Dir., Rep. Camp ; ; 94-96 Deputy CoS to Rep. John Boehner ; ; 99-02 CoS to Rep. Rob Portman7 filingsthrough 2014
Lisa WolskiErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax counsel, Sen. Jon Kyl, 2003-07; staff director, Senate Finance Tax & IRS Oversight Subcomm., 2005-06; deputy chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2008-09; chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2009-20116 filingsthrough 2026
Lauren RubinErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Suzan DelBene 2015-186 filingsthrough 2023
Tommy BrownErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senior Advisor, Treasury Ofc. of Leg. Affairs, 2024-25; Leg. Director, Rep. Brad Schneider, 2022-24 (also policy advisor, 2021-22 and leg. assistant, 2018-21); Legislative Aide, Sen. Sherrod Brown, 2017-18 (also leg. correspondent for Brown, 2015-17)2 filingsthrough 2025
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-05 Legislation Counsel, JTC; 11-14 Tax Counsel/ Special Advisor-Tax Reform, W&M2 filingsthrough 2018
Deborah PfliegerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2017
Evan GiesemannErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Acting leg. director, Sen. Thomas Carper, 2023; staff director, Senate Finance Int'l Trade Subcomm., 2021-23; Carper tax policy advisor, 2021-23; Rep. Terri Sewell tax & econ. policy advisor, 2019-21; Rep. Mark Pocan, legislative ass't, 2013-191 filingthrough 2026
Bill RysErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative director, Rep. Melissa Hart, 2001-07; deputy executive secretary, Office of the Executive Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department, 20071 filingthrough 2025
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Small Business Com.1 filingthrough 2019
Sarah Kuehl EggeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 11 Dep Staff Dir, Joint Select Cmte on Def Red1 filingthrough 2013
Jefferson VanderwolkErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 11-13 Intl Tax Counsel Dem Staff, SFC1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 13 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
