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.
Mark Allen HaysAmericans for Financial Reform22 filingsthrough 2026
Rion DennisAmericans for Financial Reform22 filingsthrough 2022
Marcus StanleyAmericans for Financial ReformCovered position: Joint Economic Committee of the US Senate from August 2007 to September 2008 (?), Office of Senator Boxer (D-CA) from September 2008 to September 201016 filingsthrough 2021
Linda JunAmericans for Financial Reform11 filingsthrough 2021
Rukmani Devi Bhatia
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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-financial-reform.
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
33 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$3M on those filings
Housing
HOU
21 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
21 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
17 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$970K on those filings
Constitution
CON
2 filings
$300K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$170K 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.
116th Congress
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2019
10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2155116th CongressStop Wall Street Looting Act10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 781116th CongressCarried Interest Fairness Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2176116th CongressReturn to Prudent Banking Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1063116th CongressHALOS Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 452116th CongressFostering Innovation Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 647116th CongressWall Street Tax Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 915116th CongressReward Work Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 599116th CongressExecutive Branch Conflict of Interest Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 156116th CongressExecutive Branch Conflict of Interest Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 733116th CongressConsumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 609116th CongressSmall Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Americans for Financial Reform
10 filingsthrough 2026
Renita MarcellinAmericans for Financial Reform9 filingsthrough 2023
Oscar Valdes VieraAmericans for Financial Reform8 filingsthrough 2019
Mandla DeskinsAmericans for Financial Reform6 filingsthrough 2022
Kwabena Kwabena NsiahThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Congressional Black Caucus, Policy Director; Rep. Richmond, Chief of Staff4 filingsthrough 2024
Jorge A AguilarThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Communications Intern, Rep. Grayson; CHCI Public Policy Fellow, Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid4 filingsthrough 2024
Robert EpplinEpplin Strategic PlanningCovered position: LD, Sen. Collins; LD and LA, Sen. Smith; Analyst, OMB Budget Review Division; Prof Staff, Senate Finance Committee; L.A. Sena. Packwood4 filingsthrough 2018
Adam BramwellCohen & Gresser LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator of Chris Coons; General Counsel to the Secretary of the Senate; Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics3 filingsthrough 2022
Elyse HicksAmericans for Financial Reform3 filingsthrough 2022
Steven Erich HubbardSteven Erich Hubbard, P C.1 filingthrough 2020
Porter McconnellAmericans for Financial Reform1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
