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-kratom-association.
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.
GOV
27 filings
$988K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
24 filings
$280K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
16 filings
$360K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$470K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
10 filings
$190K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
5 filings
$38K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$30K 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
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2017
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4502117th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20222 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 8239117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4659117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4661117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3039118th CongressFederal Kratom Consumer Protection Act1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 2599117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
S. 3062117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20221 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 2851114th CongressEquality in Insurance Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 3530114th CongressMandatory Minimum Reform Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
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.
Mary Dee BealKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Policy Analyst,Senate Republican Policy Committee;Acting Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary,USDA;Senior Advisor to the Secretary,USDA;Legislative Director,Cong. Drew Ferguson,R-GA; Legis. Director, Legis. Assistant, Scheduler Cong. Austin Scott,R9 filingsthrough 2026
David MickenbergMickenberg, LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Chad SchulkenVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Clerk/Staff Director/Professional Staff, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff, Commerce, Justice, State & Judiciary Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations8 filingsthrough 2022
Ray ColeVan Scoyoc Associates6 filingsthrough 2022
Alexander AngelsonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President5 filingsthrough 2026
Brett EwerMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Press Intern, Sen. Elizabeth Warren5 filingsthrough 2026
Ninio FetalvoMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Dir of Strategic Communications, Deputy Dir of Communications, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services; Communications Advisor, Associate Advisor, Assistant Press Secretary, Executive Office of the President5 filingsthrough 2026
Lori DenhamKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Assistant - Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA; Legislative Director - Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR4 filingsthrough 2026
Andrea RiccioMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Director Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2023
Robert BlairCorcoran & Associates, Inc. DBA Corcoran Partners3 filingsthrough 2026
Graham HallVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Senator Jeff Sessions; Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt3 filingsthrough 2022
Robert WasingerMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: ​Chief of Staff, Senator Sam Brownback3 filingsthrough 2019
Cole GintherMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)3 filingsthrough 2019
Michael CorcoranCorcoran & Associates, Inc. DBA Corcoran Partners1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 12 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
