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.
Agriculture
AGR
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Justin MccarthyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst. USTR for congress. affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR for intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep Thomas w. ewing, jan96-jul98.10 filingsthrough 2020
David SchwietertAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen. Comm. On Commerce, Science, & Transport., Staff Dir (13-15); Sen. Thune, Leg. Dir (07-12); Sen. Comm. On Environ. & Public Works, Waste Management SubComm., Staff Dir (05-06).7 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 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: bayer-corporation-fka-monsanto-company.
CPT
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015
5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1890114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5973112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act1 filingthrough 2015
S. 632114th CongressSTRONG Patents Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm4 filingsthrough 2024
Jose BorjonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Rep V.Gonzalez, Jan 17- Feb 21; Snr Advsr/Dpty CoS, Rep F.Vela, Jun 14- Jan 17; Comm Drctr, Rep Gallego, Dec 13- Jan 15; Drctr Strtgy/Comm, Rep Reyes, Nov 11- Jan 13; Press Sec, Rep Cuellar, Jan 11- Nov 11; Comm Drctr, Rep Ortiz, Mar 09- Jan 14 filingsthrough 2023
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00; Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.2 filingsthrough 2024
Eric C. EttorreAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Int, Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, Jun-Aug 13.2 filingsthrough 2023
Caryn Dyson LesterAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff mbr to Sen Breaux, 2003-04; Intrn to Sen Mikulski, 19992 filingsthrough 2017
Hal Scott ShapiroAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sr advsr for intl econ affairs & sr cnslr to dir, WH natl econ cncl, 2000; assc gen cnsl, USTR, 1996-981 filingthrough 2024
Brendan DunnAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Mbr and Leg Asst to Sen Hatch Judiciary Comm and Sub-Comm, Apr04-May07, Aug07-May08; Special Counsel to Sen Hatch Fin Comm, Jan 11-Dec 12; Policy Adv and Counsel to Sen McConnell Majority Leader staff, Dec 12-May18.1 filingthrough 2022
Virgil MillerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Policy Fellow, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Aug06 - Feb07; Prof Staff Mber, Commit on Eng and Com, Feb 07 - Jan 11; Health Policy Advisor, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jan 09 - Jan 11; CoS, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Jan 11 - Mar 19.1 filingthrough 2022
Alixandria LappAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, comm and pol dir, comm dir, Rep Smith1 filingthrough 2010
Scott ParvenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg asst, Rep Mavroules1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
