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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
20 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$540K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3588117th CongressMedical Countermeasures Surge Capacity Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3799117th CongressPREVENT Pandemics Act1 filingthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Whitaker L AskewAvoq, LLC22 filingsthrough 2025
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-200622 filingsthrough 2025
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.21 filingsthrough 2024
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: apiject-systems-corp.
fees reported
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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.
HCR
9 filings
$540K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
5 filings
$300K 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.
14 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 Leader10 filingsthrough 2022
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Director of the House Wednesday Group, Senior Advisor to Minority Whip and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.9 filingsthrough 2021
Sandra AlcalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Filemon Vela; Member Services Director - H. Democratic Caucus (Rep. Hakeem Jeffries); Policy Director - Congressional Hispanic Caucus (Rep. Joaquin Castro); Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent - Rep. Joaquin Castro8 filingsthrough 2025
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip7 filingsthrough 2022
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst POTUS WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Deputy Dir.WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Dir Floor Ops,US House1/18-12/18 Special Asst,POTUS WH Leg.Affairs1/17-12/17 Floor Asst,US House1/11-8/14 Staff Asst,House Rep.Conf2/09-12/10 Staff Asst WH Leg Afrs6/08-1/096 filingsthrough 2026
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: 2001- 8/4/2013 - US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority5 filingsthrough 2026
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018) Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007) Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/04)4 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: WH:Obama:Natl Ecnmc Cncl:Spec Asst Preesident&CofS WH:Obama:Exec Ofc-President TRD Rep:Asst US TRD Rep for Private Sector Engagement Sen John Walsh CofS Sen Max Baucus:Deputy CofS/Political Dir Rep.Earl Blumenauer:Exec Asst&Deputy Press Sec4 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel ScalesThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, USTR (2025); Deputy Assistant, USTR (2019-2020); Coalitions Director, House Natural Resources (2015-2016)3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
