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.
Health Issues
HCR
25 filings
$2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$960K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative
Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep.
Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)26 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate23 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)21 filingsthrough 2025
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch (2000-2001)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: bio-rad-laboratories.
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$200K 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.
19 filings
through 2025
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)15 filingsthrough 2024
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)14 filingsthrough 2025
Steven PalmerForbes-Tate14 filingsthrough 2023
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012)11 filingsthrough 2026
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate10 filingsthrough 2022
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
