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: anheuser-busch-companies-inc.
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
136 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
115 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
80 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
79 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
70 filings
$2M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
55 filings
$3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
44 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
39 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
24 filings
$1.2M 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.
113th Congress
Brewers Excise and Economic Relief Act of 2013
37 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1175116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201934 filingsthrough 2020
S. 236115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201734 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 747115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201733 filingsthrough 2018
S. 362116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201931 filingsthrough 2020
S. 958113th CongressBEER Act20 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5034111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.20 filingsthrough 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.
Thomas J Keating
The Ob-C Group, LLC
64 filingsthrough 2026
Robert G StevensonThe Ob-C Group, LLC64 filingsthrough 2026
Robert H MarshThe Ob-C Group, LLC64 filingsthrough 2026
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC64 filingsthrough 2026
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLC57 filingsthrough 2024
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld56 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph O'NeillPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.49 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel M MccarthyDmm StrategiesCovered position: White House Legislative Assistant45 filingsthrough 2026
Robert A RussellThe Simmons & Russell Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Mark Pryor45 filingsthrough 2024
Kyle SimmonsThe Simmons & Russell Group, LLC45 filingsthrough 2024
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick Kennedy ; ; Dpty Staff Dir., Dem. Tech. and Comm. Committee ; ; Policy Advisor, Rep. Dick Gephardt ; ; Staff Assistant, Rep. Dick Gephardt43 filingsthrough 2023
Michael S JohnsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bob Michel Chief of Staff41 filingsthrough 2018
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-0439 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith39 filingsthrough 2023
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sr. Comms. Advisor, Sen. Republican Conference38 filingsthrough 2023
David HeilThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Congressman Sam Johnson34 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin Craig NobleNoble StrategiesCovered position: LA Sen. Blanche Lincoln, LA Sen. Dale Bumpers33 filingsthrough 2017
Timothy A MolinoTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar32 filingsthrough 2023
Jennifer Johnson JarrellDmm StrategiesCovered position: AA, US Senate, LA & AA, US House of Representatives31 filingsthrough 2023
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld31 filingsthrough 2016
John BuscherForbes-TateCovered position: LC, Sen. Alan Dixon; LA, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun30 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd30 filingsthrough 2020
DANIEL C TATE jrForbes-TateCovered position: Spec. Asst. to Pres. Legis.Affairs; DAS-Dept of Energy ; ; LD, Rep. W.J. Bill Tauzin30 filingsthrough 2020
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Baucus30 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus ; ; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP30 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Dir. & Floor Asst, House Speaker ; ; LA, Rep. Boehner; Staff member, Rep. Tiberi30 filingsthrough 2020
