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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
68 filings
$940K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
63 filings
$890K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5394115th CongressIran Responsible Reporting Act of 20188 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2844115th CongressSTB Information Security Improvement Act8 filingsthrough 2018
Jacob Albert GermanBarnes & Thornburg, LLP42 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew E MorganBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President; Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Counsel to the Vice President; Deputy Counsel to the Vice President31 filingsthrough 2026
Robert T GrandBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a27 filingsthrough 2015
M Ryan VaughnBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a7 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: board-of-commissioners-of-allen-county.
52 filings
$760K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
5 filings
$80K 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.
114th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017
3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2844114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4552119th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4553119th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4754119th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5342119th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8997118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8998118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9026118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9028118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9747118th CongressContinuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20252 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.
through 2010
Craig S BurkhardtBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a6 filingsthrough 2009
