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.
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: best-buy-co-inc.
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.
HCR
64 filings
$14.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN
61 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
56 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
43 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
41 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
38 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
21 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
14 filings
$4.6M 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.
113th Congress
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
16 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3881118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 201110 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act10 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1580111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2382111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2695111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Clayton Patrick HayesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Patrick Hayes - Chief of Staff, Legislative Director - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Evan Bayh, D-IN; Staff Director - Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.17 filingsthrough 2024
Mike HiltnerBest Buy Co., Inc.17 filingsthrough 2014
Rose Sullivan (Listed In Error)Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Constituent Services Advocate, Outreach Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director and Chief of Staff - Senator Amy Klobuchar16 filingsthrough 2019
Mj KennyKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)15 filingsthrough 2024
Malloy McdanielWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Floor Assistant, Senate Majority Leader Trent LottCloakroom Assistant, Office of the Republican Secretary ; Policy Advisor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ; Floor Assistant, Senate Minority Leader Trent LottCloakroom Assistant, Office of the Republican Secretary5 filingsthrough 2015
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator John AshcroftPaid Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt5 filingsthrough 2015
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee4 filingsthrough 2015
Richard R BoykinBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a4 filingsthrough 2011
Michael D BloomquistKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction - General Counsel3 filingsthrough 2015
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President2 filingsthrough 2015
Austen JensenBest Buy Co., Inc.Covered position: COS, Rep. Patrick McHenry (Aug. 2014-Aug. 2015); DCOS/LD, Rep. Robert Pettinger (Jan. 2013-July 2014); DCOS/LD, Rep. Frank Guinta (Jan. 2011-Jan. 2013); LA, Rep. Patrick McHenry (Feb. 2006-Jan. 2011)1 filingthrough 2026
