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: auburn-university.
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.
73 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
73 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
73 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
72 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
67 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
52 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
48 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
38 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Animals
ANI
32 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Housing
HOU
31 filings
$1.4M 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.
114th Congress
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017
7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2772114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3096113th CongressTo designate the building occupied by the Federal Bureau of Investigation located at 801 Follin Lane, Vienna, Virginia, as the "Michael D. Resnick Terrorist Screening Center".5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1400113th CongressAdult Education and Economic Growth Act5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 515113th CongressA bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the Yellow Ribbon G.I. Education Enhancement Program to cover recipients of Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry scholarship, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 515112th CongressA bill to rescind amounts made available for water treatment improvements for the Flathead County Water and Sewer District and make the amounts available for Federal deficit reduction.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2960116th CongressMaking appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3052116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Wesley Ryan WelchCauthen Forbes & WilliamsCovered position: LD, LC & LA for Senator Shelby15 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan R ParetMckinnon Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd10 filingsthrough 2020
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Senator Chuck Hagel Staff Assistant, Senator Chuck Hagel9 filingsthrough 2020
Mark MckinnonMckinnon Group, LLCCovered position: National Security Advisor, Sen Katie Britt; National Security Advisor, Sen Richard Shelby; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security5 filingsthrough 2026
