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: association-of-equipment-manufacturers.
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.
TRD
77 filings
$44.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
63 filings
$31.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
61 filings
$39.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
48 filings
$28.7M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
43 filings
$27M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
42 filings
$27.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
38 filings
$26.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
32 filings
$11.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
31 filings
$20.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
29 filings
$19.8M 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
Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy Act of 2021
21 filingsthrough 2022
S. 746117th CongressTrade Security Act of 202121 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act21 filingsthrough 2022
S. 997117th CongressOffice of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy Act of 202121 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4037117th CongressTrade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1078117th CongressBUILDS Act19 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1251117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2166117th CongressRETAIN GPS and Satellite Communications Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1008117th CongressHandgun Trigger Safety Act of 202118 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.
Nick YaksichAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers
44 filingsthrough 2018
Anne Forristall LukeAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers30 filingsthrough 2015
Jack SchenendorfCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: COS, T&I Committee, US House, 1976-200121 filingsthrough 2015
Megan Miller EvansAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers19 filingsthrough 2021
Donald Anthony BarnesLaw Offices of Donald a. Barnes, PLLC18 filingsthrough 2014
Christopher HansellAssociation of Equipment ManufacturersCovered position: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) from 2015-2018 Scheduler, Rep. Christopher Smith (NJ-04) from 2018-2021 Legislative Assistant/Military Legislative Assistant17 filingsthrough 2025
Autum LankfordAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers15 filingsthrough 2025
Ann-Marie PadgettAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers10 filingsthrough 2010
Stephanie SeeAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers9 filingsthrough 2021
Heideh ShahmoradiO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee8 filingsthrough 2026
James O'KeeffeO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Senior Analyst, Senate Budget Committee.8 filingsthrough 2026
Maxwell HuntleyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: NSC, EOP, Dir Defense Policy and Strategy; HASC, Prof. Staff; Sen John Kennedy, Nat Security Adv; Rep. Rob Wittman, Sr Advisor; Rep Rob Wittman, Military LA/Defense Policy Adv; Rep Wittman, Leg Aide; Rep Wittman, LC; Rep Jack Bergman, Staff Assistant5 filingsthrough 2026
Mark CopelandO'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Tammy Duckworth Legislative Director, Congressman Mark Desaunier Legislative Director, Congressman Tim Bishop5 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph J HackDb3, LLC (Fka the Daschle Group)Covered position: Communications Director/DCOS/COS - Sen. Deb Fischer; Press Secretary/Communications Director - Sen. Jon Kyl; Coalitions Coordinator, Press Secretary, Leg. Asst. - Rep. J Randy Forbes; Staff Asst.- Sen. George Voinovich; Intern - Sen. Bill Frist5 filingsthrough 2024
Johnathan JosephsAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers5 filingsthrough 2023
Alexander AngelsonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President4 filingsthrough 2026
Brittan SpechtMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Counsel, Dep Chief of Staff, Hse Speaker; Policy Dir, Dep Policy Dir, Hse Min Leader.; Sr Policy Adv., Hse Maj. Leader; Policy Dr, RSC; Dep Chief of Staff Rep McClintock, Leg Asst & Financial Analyst, Rep. McClintock4 filingsthrough 2026
Jason YaworskeMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor, Hse Speaker; Clerk, Sen Appropriations Cmt,; Assoc. Dir., Off. Management & Budget; Chief of Staff, Rep Davidson; Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Rep. King4 filingsthrough 2026
Preston HillMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor, House Speaker; Sr. Policy Advisor, Policy Advisor, House Minority Leader; Special Assistant, House Majority Leader4 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph J HackBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Communications Director/DCOS/COS - Sen. Deb Fischer; Press Secretary/Communications Director - Sen. Jon Kyl; Coalitions Coordinator, Press Secretary, Leg. Asst. - Rep. J Randy Forbes; Staff Asst. - Sen. George Voinovich; Intern - Sen. Bill Frist4 filingsthrough 2024
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ​Legislative Aide Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel Sen Boxer; Legislative Director Senator Shaheen4 filingsthrough 2021
Martin WhitmerWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: Deputy CoS - DOT4 filingsthrough 2020
Thomas WorrallWhitmer & Worrall, LLC4 filingsthrough 2020
Gabriel PellathyWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: CoS - U.S. Commercial Service - DOC4 filingsthrough 2020
John ReisingBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Operations Director, Member Services Director, Deputy Chief of Staff- Majority Leader Steve Scalise; Operations Director, Rep. Bill Flores; Scheduler, Rep. Austin Scott; Intern, Senator Trent Lott.3 filingsthrough 2026
Brandt AndersonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Committee on Veterans Affairs; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep Jackie Walorski; Legislative Director, Rep Jim Banks; Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Ted Cruz; National Security Advisor, Senator Todd Young3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 21 of 38 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
