63 filings from 3 registrants · 2012–2021 · latest filed Oct 15, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4M
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.
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: annaly-capital-management-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.
BAN
34 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$730K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$570K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$240K 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
Jumpstart GSE Reform Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2995114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20166 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1484114th CongressFinancial Regulatory Improvement Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1910114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2767113th CongressProtecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3808114th CongressTo require the withdrawal and study of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's proposed rule on Federal Home Loan Bank membership, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2361115th CongressHousing Opportunity Mortgage Expansion Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5485114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3067114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position:
35 filingsthrough 2021
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-Tate32 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP18 filingsthrough 2016
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLP13 filingsthrough 2016
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)12 filingsthrough 2021
Kara M. WardK&L Gates, LLP12 filingsthrough 2016
Kelley Julia WilliamsForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2021
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 1710 filingsthrough 2021
Kara M. WardVenable LLP10 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)8 filingsthrough 2021
