Aristotle, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Aristotle, Inc.
District of Columbia
12 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2022 · latest filed Jan 18, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$150K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$150K
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.
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.
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
8 filings
$150K 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Charles BlackPrime Policy Group8 filingsthrough 2021
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation4 filingsthrough 2022
Martin PaonePrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1995-2001: Secretary for the Minority, Senate; 2001-02: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2002-07: Secretary, Minority, Senate; 2007-08: Secretary, Majority, Senate; 2015-17: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, White House
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: aristotle-inc.
Zack MarshallPrime Policy GroupCovered position: May 2008-2010: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2010-2012: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; 2012-March 2014: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Cooper; March 2014 - January 2019: Legislative Director, Rep. John Yarmuth3 filingsthrough 2021
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)3 filingsthrough 2021
R Scott PastrickPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel LanePrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth Hart ThompsonPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2002-04: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill; 2005-06: Legislative Director, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2006-09: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2009-11: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean; 2011-15: Chief of Staff, Rep. John Carney2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
