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
56 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1994116th CongressSetting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.44 filingsthrough 2026
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan.40 filingsthrough 2022
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC37 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 57 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-retirement-association-formerly-asppa.
FIN
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$480K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
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 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
Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018
4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6757115th CongressFamily Savings Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3219115th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the requirements for multiple employer plans, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 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.
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.35 filingsthrough 2026
Josh KardonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Ron Wyden. Legislative Director/Press Secretary, Sen. Ron Wyden. Staff Director, House Government Affairs Committee.28 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Committee Member, Jt. Committee on Taxation28 filingsthrough 2018
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules. Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions. House Committee on Homeland Security. Various staff positions, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.25 filingsthrough 2021
Monique FrazierCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR).20 filingsthrough 2026
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC19 filingsthrough 2016
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Nick Smith18 filingsthrough 2016
De'Ana DowCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant to Sen. Walter Huddleston; Counsel to Chairman William Rainer (CFTC); and Special Advisor to Chairman James Newsome (CFTC).17 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Director, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone.17 filingsthrough 2024
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.16 filingsthrough 2026
