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
69 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
65 filings
$2M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1398111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 558111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLC70 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. Bennett66 filingsthrough 2026
Jon GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Dpty CoS & Policy Dir-Sen.Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Policy Cnsl-Sen Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Dpty Assoc Dir (Senate), OMB, Leg. Aff; Policy Cnsl/Analyst-Sen Kyl/Sen Rep Plcy Cmte; Leg.Cnsl, Rep Frelinghuysen; Law Clerk-DoT Amtrak Reform Cnsl; Intern-Rep Hefley.19 filingsthrough 2022
Porter ByersPolaris Government Relations, LLC Constituent Visitor Assistant, Senator Richard Burr (NC) 2012
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: association-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-franchisees.
HCR
64 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Torts
TOR
10 filings
$300K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$120K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2426111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 273111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1048111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3400111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4306111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2026
Amelia BlackwoodPolaris Government Relations, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
Kevin O'HanlonPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Rep Sutton: Deputy Chief of Staff/Scheduler8 filingsthrough 2015
Zack RimmelePolaris Government Relations, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
