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
20 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 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Ryan AbrahamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senate Finance Committee - 2004-09, SFC Tax Counsel - 2010-1815 filingsthrough 2025
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-05 Legislation Counsel, JTC; 11-14 Tax Counsel/ Special Advisor-Tax Reform, W&M13 filingsthrough 2024
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 95-98 Staff Director, W&M Sub-Committee on Oversight4 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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-road-and-transportation-builders-association.
117th Congress
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 6787117th CongressGas Prices Relief Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3609117th CongressGas Prices Relief Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2117th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2021
S. 1931117th CongressSurface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
Covered position: 87-08 Counsel, House Nat. Resources Committee
4 filingsthrough 2017
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2019
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-02 CoS to Rep. Rob Portman2 filingsthrough 2018
Rebecca BurchErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2018
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 93-97 W&M Staff Assoc to Rep. Wally Herger2 filingsthrough 2017
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 LD to Rep. John Kasich; 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
