81 filings from 5 registrants · 2018–2025 · latest filed Jan 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
49 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8957118th CongressPROVE IT Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ryan CostelloRyan Costello StrategiesCovered position: U.S. Congressman, PA-6 (2015-2019)25 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew KingNeale Creek, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lindsey Graham; Projects & Appropriations Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Lindsey Graham21 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin SweeneySix-7 Strategies, LLCCovered position: LC, Press Secretary, State Director for Senator Lisa Murkowski - 2005-2011, 2013-201717 filingsthrough 2023
John BreauxSquire Patton Boggs US Senator Jan. 1987-Jan. 2005; US Congressman, Sept. 30, 1972-January 3, 1987.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 81 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: americans-for-carbon-dividends.
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.
TRD
6 filings
$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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2020
Bret BoylesSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff, Sen.Lott, 1996-97, 2005-079 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew CuttsSquire Patton Boggs9 filingsthrough 2020
David SchnittgerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-20059 filingsthrough 2020
Chester Trent LottSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: US Senator, January 1989-December 2007; US Congressman, January 1972-December 19899 filingsthrough 2020
Austin HarrisonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: March 2009: Intern for Cong. Gregg Harper; May-Aug. 2013: Intern for Sen. Thad Cochran; January-May 2015: June-August 2015: U.S. Department of State, intern, U.S. Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia.9 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick KirbySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug-Dec 2014: Legal Extern, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; May-Aug 2013: Legal Intern, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; May-Aug 2008: Regulatory Intern, CFTC; May-Aug 2007: Foreign Affairs Intern, US State Department9 filingsthrough 2020
Robert EpplinEpplin Strategic PlanningCovered position: LD, Sen. Collins; LA Sen. Smith; Analyst, OMB Budget Review Division; Prof Staff, Senate Finance Committee; LA Sen. Packwood.7 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
