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.
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$800K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$590K 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.
Patrick Galagher MartinCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Office of Senator Evan Bayh; Special Assistant - Center for Consumer Info and Insurance Oversight, Dept. of HHS16 filingsthrough 2025
Charles Towner FrenchCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert15 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher Bright WeldWiley Rein LLPCovered position: Dep. Legis. Dir., Sen. Coverdell (1999-2000); Staff, Sen. Com. Foreign Relations (2000-2001)5 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 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-institute-of-steel-construction.
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
117th Congress
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
1 filingthrough 2021
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.
Scott WeaverWiley Rein LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Katherine Harris (2006-07); Leg. Director, Rep. Katherine Harris (2006); Leg. Assistant, Rep. Katherine Harris (2005); Leg. Assistant, Rep. John Sullivan (2004-05); Leg. Correspondent, Rep. John Sullivan (2003)
5 filingsthrough 2022
C. Towner FrenchPotomac Strategic Consulting LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert3 filingsthrough 2026
Nova James DalyWiley Rein LLPCovered position: International Trade Advisor, Senate Finance Cmte. 2002-03; Deputy Asst. Secy. US Dept. of Treas. 2006-092 filingsthrough 2020
Stephen ClaeysWiley Rein LLPCovered position: ​Trade Counsel, Committee on Ways & Means (1/2011-2/2017); - Deputy Asst. Secretary for AD/CVD Operations, U.S. Department of Commerce (10/2005-1/2009); National Security Advisor, Office of the Vice President, White House (4/2003-10/2005); Chief of Staff to Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce (7/2001-4/2003)2 filingsthrough 2019
Madison SmithCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Majority Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Legislative Assistant, Senator John Cornyn; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Will Hurd; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Roger Williams1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
