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.
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.
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: benchmade-knife-company.
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.
38 filings
$1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
34 filings
$900K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$100K 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.
10 filings
through 2011
David J GarriepyTremont Strategies Group LLC (F/K/A Ads Ventures)6 filingsthrough 2020
Ryan DierkerRising Tide Associates5 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick MahanRising Tide Associates5 filingsthrough 2024
Mark DedrickBall Janik LLPCovered position: Senior LA Rep. Rush Holt5 filingsthrough 2009
Joseph A CarnevaleBall Janik LLPCovered position: N43, FFC; PEO (DD21); ASN (RD&A)5 filingsthrough 2009
Sarah MillerRising Tide Associates1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
