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.
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-federation-of-government-employees.
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.
HOM
18 filings
$420K on those filings
Veterans
VET
16 filings
$520K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$650K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$540K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
8 filings
$540K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$210K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$220K 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.
115th Congress
VET Protection Act of 2017
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4243115th CongressTo establish a commission for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the modernization or realignment of facilities of the Veterans Health Administration, to improve construction and management leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to amend and appropriate funds for the Veterans Choice Program, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6538118th CongressVA Correct Compensation Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 71115th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027.4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1364115th CongressOfficial Time Reform Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4703115th CongressDepartment of Labor Accountability Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2288115th CongressVET Protection Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4278118th CongressRestore VA Accountability Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Michael Liptak
Mccarthy Advanced Consulting LLC
Covered position: Legislative Director; Representative Don Young (AK-At Large)
6 filingsthrough 2026
Frank MccarthyThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director - Representative Sue Kelly5 filingsthrough 2017
Brian KerkhovenMccarthy Advanced Consulting LLCCovered position: Legislative Director for Representative Kelly (PA); Legislative Assistant for Representative Jim Walsh (NY).4 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
