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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
19 filings
$20K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
19 filings
$20K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3683118th CongressBenton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8403118th CongressBenton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary and Consultant, Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Counsel, Senator John Warner; Lead Staffer, Sen. Republicans High Tech Task Force20 filingsthrough 2026
Nick MinerMonument Advocacy13 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan AlphinMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Public Affairs Liaison & Leg. Assistant, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; Leg. Assistant, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); Staff Assistant, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Intern, Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)11 filingsthrough 2025
E. Ashley Hoy
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: benton-mackaye-trail-association.
RES
5 filings
$20K 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.
118th Congress
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2024
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7884117th CongressBenton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3686118th CongressSHIELD Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
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.
Monument Advocacy
Covered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt (R-MO); Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
9 filingsthrough 2025
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)8 filingsthrough 2023
John Andrew PappasMonument Advocacy7 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
