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: ande.
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.
5 filings
$160K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 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.
116th Congress
State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2021
2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7667116th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20212 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.
4 filingsthrough 2024
Eric SchmutzSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Deputy COS and Leg. Dir for Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins,1/09-12/16; Special Asst. - Dir of Leg. Affairs U.S. Department of HUD 6/03-1/09; Legislative Dir for Rep. Roger Wicker, 1/03-6/03; Legislative Dir for Representative C. Saxby Chambliss 3/02-1/033 filingsthrough 2023
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader3 filingsthrough 2022
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.3 filingsthrough 2022
Art A EstopinanThe Estopinan Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen3 filingsthrough 2019
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, and Communications Director2 filingsthrough 2022
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
