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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
68 filings
$5.7M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1114th CongressReserved for the Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2016
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: apple.
113th Congress
EXPIRE Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 911113th CongressEmergency Transportation Safety Fund Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2091112th CongressUnited States Job Creation and International Tax Reform Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 3933116th CongressCHIPS for America Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4113th CongressJobs for America Act2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5450110th CongressModernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7060110th CongressRenewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
20 filingsthrough 2026
RANDOLPH KARL HERNDON jrCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Pat Toomey; Policy Director/Tax Counsel, Rep. Jim Renacci18 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury17 filingsthrough 2013
Melissa MuellerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Ways/Means Subc. Staff Director/Tax Counsel; Leg. Dir., Rep. Richard Neal; Tax Counsel, Sen. Finance Comm.; Counsel, Rep. Doggett; Leg Counsel Sen. Reid.16 filingsthrough 2020
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.11 filingsthrough 2024
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT10 filingsthrough 2011
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub10 filingsthrough 2011
James DennisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen Robb - Counsel, Sen Bingaman4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
