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-task-force-argentina.
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.
FIN
19 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
15 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$190K 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.
7 filings
through 2010
H.R. 5564111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 291113th CongressExpressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Republic of Argentina's membership in the G20 should be conditioned on its adherence to international norms of economic relations and commitment to the rule of law.5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5013113th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2499113th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4923114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 7705112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2493111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1798113th CongressDental Insurance Fairness Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 912113th CongressTelevision Consumer Freedom Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 5564112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on certain footwear.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 7705111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst to President Bush & Deputy Dir. OPL, Policy Advisor, Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist, Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts, Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker22 filingsthrough 2016
Douglas B DavenportDavenport Ventures, LLCCovered position: N/A22 filingsthrough 2016
Carl W BentzelDci Group, L.L.C.Covered position: Sr Counsel, Cttee on Commerce, Science & Transportation21 filingsthrough 2014
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee Staff Dir (09-10), House Rules Comm Deputy Staff Dir (07-08), House Select Comm. on Voting Irregularities,, General Counsel, detailed (9/07-9/08)20 filingsthrough 2015
Alan P LarsonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, for Economic and Business Affairs (88-90), Deputy Assistant Sec. of State for International, Energy Resources (1987-88)15 filingsthrough 2016
Stuart E EizenstatCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Under Secretary for Economic, Business and, Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999), Under Secretary of Commerce for International, Trade (1996-1997), U.S. Ambassador to European Union (93-96)15 filingsthrough 2015
CONNIE MACK ivMack StrategiesCovered position: U.S. Representative (2005-2013)10 filingsthrough 2016
Mark GlazeThe Raben GroupCovered position: Leg. Assist. Rep David Skaggs10 filingsthrough 2012
Martin GoldCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Floor Advisor & Counsel, Senator Frist (2003), Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Baker (79-82), Counsel to former Senator Mark Hatfield (72-79)9 filingsthrough 2013
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Comm Dir, House Approps, Press Sec, Rep. LoBiondo6 filingsthrough 2015
Michael FerenceS-3 GroupCovered position: Dir of Strategic Development for Majority Leader Eric Cantor5 filingsthrough 2015
DAVE GRIMALDI jrThe Raben Group5 filingsthrough 2009
C. Anne PenceCovington & Burling LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Jeff ShockeyS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director, House Approps Comm3 filingsthrough 2014
John VeroneauCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Legislative Director to Senator William Frist;, Legislative Assistant and Leg Counsel and Leg, Director to Senator William Cohen2 filingsthrough 2012
Doug B DavenportThe Trailblazer Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director, House Approps Agriculture Subcommittee1 filingthrough 2014
Holly FechnerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Senator Ted Kennedy, Chief Labor and Pensions Counsel, HELP Com.1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 18 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
