20 filings from 3 registrants · 2021–2023 · latest filed Oct 5, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$555K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$555K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Science/Technology
SCI
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
7 filings
$185K 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.
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4521117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20212 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Scott W ReedChesapeake Enterprises9 filingsthrough 2023
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader7 filingsthrough 2022
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-20067 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-innovation-the-ai-project.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Jessica Anne MandelMiller Strategies, LLC7 filingsthrough 2022
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee5 filingsthrough 2021
Rebecca Louise ShawAvoq, LLCCovered position: (Rep. Devin Nunes), Paid Intern, (Rep. Chris Gibson), Legis. Assistant, SR Legis. Assistant, Legis. Dir., Dep. Chief of Staff & Legis. Dir., (Rep. Trey Hollingsworth), Chief of Staff.2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
