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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Michael WaltzR-Florida-AL
Bills: H.R. 1505, H.R. 3413, H.R. 4993
50 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Omar FrancoBecker & Poliakoff, P.A.Covered position: Former Chief of Staff for Rep. Mario Diaz- Balart.15 filingsthrough 2026
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: bacardi-north-america-corporation.
fees reported
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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
4 filings
$80K 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.
119th Congress
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the temporary increase in limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
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:
4 filingsthrough 2021
Joan KutcherCovington & Burling LLP3 filingsthrough 2016
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director; House Rules Committee, Deputy Staff Director; House Select Committee on Voting Registration Irregularities, General Counsel, detailed (9/2007-9/2008)3 filingsthrough 2016
Richard HertlingCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Cmte.; Acting Asst. AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Dep. Asst. AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Dep. CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander; Min. Staff Dir., Sen. Gov. Affairs Cmte3 filingsthrough 2016
Brendan ParetsCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Gresham Barrett; Constituent Liaison for Rep. Howard Coble3 filingsthrough 2016
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Communications Director, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Press Secretary, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Special Assistant, Congressman Joseph Pitts3 filingsthrough 2016
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Special Assistant to the President; Office of Senator Michael F. Bennet, Legislative Director House Committee on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Office of Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Legislative Director ; ; Office of Senator Maria Cantwell, Legislative Counsel; Office of Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Legal Counsel.3 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
