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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
James E. RischR-Idaho
Bills: S. 1094, S. 140, S. 1404 +13 more
186 filings
3 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Rachel AppletonAnthropicCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Derek Kilmer (2017-2018); Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee (2018-2021); Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs (2021); Chief Policy Officer, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (2021-2022)11 filingsthrough 2025
Mary CroghanAnthropicCovered position: Project Mgr, Office of Cabinet Affairs/White House (Mar-Dec2020); Policy Advisor, US Dept HUD (Jun 2019-Jan2021); Staff/Press Asst, Research/Press Asst, Staff, Cmte on Homeland Security (Apr2021-Aug2023); Staff, House Judiciary Cmte (Aug2023-Aug2024)7 filingsthrough 2026
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: anthropic.
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.
3 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$1M 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.
H.R. 5885119th CongressGAIN AI Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
S. 1071119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
6 filingsthrough 2026
Leah Harrelson GrahamAnthropicCovered position: Leg Affairs Specialist, U.S. Dept of Commerce (Apr 2005-Dec 2007); Deputy Associate Director, The White House (Jan 2003-Apr 2005); Assistant, The White House (Feb 2002-Jan 2003); Assistant Scheduler, Office of the House Majority Whip (2001-2002)6 filingsthrough 2026
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen4 filingsthrough 2026
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House4 filingsthrough 2026
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House4 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick CliftonFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. to the President for Operations, Executive Office of the President, President Donald J. Trump (17-19)4 filingsthrough 2026
Jacobus VreeburgFierce Government RelationsCovered position: House Homeland Sec. Cmte.-Staff Asst., Dep. Parl., Parl., Rep. Messer-Leg. Dir., House Rep. Policy Cmte.-Staff Dir., NSC-Staff Officer, Acting Dep. Exec. Sec., Dep. Exec. Sec., House Rep. Conference-Policy Dir., Rep. Stefanik-Policy Dir., USUN-W-Dir.4 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering3 filingsthrough 2026
Brian PetersAnthropicCovered position: Press Assistant, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) (Dec. 2001-Oct. 2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) (Nov. 2003-May 2006)3 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin MerkelAnthropicCovered position: Special Asst, President and Senate Liaison (Jan 2024 - Jan 2025); Leg Director, Sen. Murray (May 2019 - Feb 2024); Leg Asst, Sen. Murray (Mar 2015 - Apr 2019); Leg Aide, Sen. Murray (June 2012 - Feb 2015); Staff Asst, Sen. Murray (Feb 2012-June 2012)2 filingsthrough 2026
James WilliamsFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Sen. Finance Cmte: Sr Tax/Econ Policy Adv & Tax/IRS Subcmte Staff Dir | Sen. Thune: Sr Policy/Tax/Trade Policy Adv | Sen. Roberts: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Econ Policy Adv | Sen. Hatch: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv | Rep. Marchant: Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 15 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
