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.
Charles BlackPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A38 filingsthrough 2020
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen30 filingsthrough 2017
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: at-t.
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.
BUD
35 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
27 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$630K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
8 filings
$860K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
4 filings
$480K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$330K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
3 filings
$195K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$60K 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.
110th Congress
Broadband Data Improvement Act
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1712114th CongressFreedom from Internet Tax Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 235114th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3805114th CongressBroadband Conduit Deployment Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 431114th CongressInternet Tax Freedom Forever Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6304110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1190110th CongressConnect The Nation Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 19115th CongressMOBILE NOW Act4 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2555114th CongressMOBILE NOW Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3773110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5440110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2441110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20074 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.
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (18 yrs), US Representative (2 yrs)29 filingsthrough 2016
William StoneCapstone National PartnersCovered position: Chief of Staff, Dave Obey: House Appropriations Committee28 filingsthrough 2022
Paul BrownPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A28 filingsthrough 2016
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (19 yrs), US Representative (1 yr)28 filingsthrough 2016
Drew K ColeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Intern, Sen Don Nickles26 filingsthrough 2017
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: Sen. Breaux Staff, 98-0423 filingsthrough 2016
John Patrick FeeheryQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ComDirRepDeLay,PresSecRepHastert21 filingsthrough 2017
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)18 filingsthrough 2017
Gregg HartleyCloakroom Advisors LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff Congressman Roy Blunt17 filingsthrough 2017
William FoxCloakroom Advisors LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant House Transportation Committee17 filingsthrough 2017
Michael J BatesPrime Policy Group13 filingsthrough 2014
Steven PruittJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Former House Budget Director11 filingsthrough 2011
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll10 filingsthrough 2012
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)10 filingsthrough 2011
JC WATTS jrJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Former Member of Congress10 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan DuffyDUFFY&SHANLEY9 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew CuttsBreaux Lott Leadership Group9 filingsthrough 2014
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)9 filingsthrough 2010
William LawlerCapstone National Partners8 filingsthrough 2022
John EastonQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: COSSenAyotte,COSSenGSmith,PresSecRepGanske8 filingsthrough 2017
John ArialeCloakroom Advisors LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Crenshaw (FL) Chief of Staff Rep. McCollum (FL)8 filingsthrough 2017
Keith SmithPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2016
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Nick Rahall8 filingsthrough 2013
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats8 filingsthrough 2011
Jaimon Maurice JacksonJ.C. Watts Companies8 filingsthrough 2011
Armstrong RobinsonPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff & Counsel, Office of Representative Keith Rothfus7 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 54 of 78 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
