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: argentum.
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.
24 filings
$1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
20 filings
$830K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
19 filings
$900K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
11 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Torts
TOR
3 filings
$109K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Housing
HOU
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
1 filing
$50K 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.
117th Congress
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1799117th CongressPPP Extension Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1848117th CongressLIFT America Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1237111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 512111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3153118th CongressGrandfamily Housing Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1298118th CongressSupporting Our Direct Care Workforce and Family Caregivers Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1448118th CongressGrandfamily Housing Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 331117th CongressNurses CARE Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4131117th CongressBetter Care Better Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2210117th CongressBetter Care Better Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 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.
Daniel Samson
Argentum
24 filingsthrough 2026
Maggie ElehwanyArgentumCovered position: Counsel, Senator Lisa Murkowski24 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle LoeberArgentum22 filingsthrough 2026
Josef NovotnyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Clerk of the House, Lorraine Miller (Reading Clerk), Clerk of the House,Karen Haas (Reading Clerk), Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson(Reading Clerk)22 filingsthrough 2026
Christian MorganHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Congresswoman Wagner, Chief of Staff10 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate7 filingsthrough 2023
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)7 filingsthrough 2023
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)7 filingsthrough 2023
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate7 filingsthrough 2023
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Brian Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Brian Jones (2018-2019)7 filingsthrough 2023
Barbara SuttonCassidy & Associates, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2020
Alexis Marie De ArmasArgentum7 filingsthrough 2017
Keith SniderHealth Policy Source, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel Tyler BostonHealth Policy Source, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Energy & Commerce5 filingsthrough 2021
Gayle GerdesHealth Policy Source, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent: Senator TimothyHutchison;LegislativeAssistant: Congressman Chris John; Intern:CongressmanJim McCreryand Congressman Cleo Fields5 filingsthrough 2021
Justin WorrellArgentum5 filingsthrough 2015
WILLIAM SMITH jrSextons CreekCovered position: Chief of Staff - Congressman Mike Pence4 filingsthrough 2020
Micah IntermillArgentum4 filingsthrough 2010
Jay Brett PerronHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)3 filingsthrough 2026
Neil CohenArgentum3 filingsthrough 2017
Derrick M WhiteForbes-Tate2 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew FisherHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: FPAC/USDA, Chief of Staff Senator McConnell, Legislative Aide Senator Blunt, Legislative Aide1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 12 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
