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
30 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 65 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1251117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
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-us-llc.
20 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$240K 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.
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4821118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2131118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2605118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Will BrewsterVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby
5 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin YoderVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Intern, Rep. Jerry Moran; Special Asst, Office of Counternarcotics, U.S. Dept of Defense5 filingsthrough 2023
Benjamin E. QuayleVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Former U.S. Congressman5 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
