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.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
35 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
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.
George CooperForbes-Tate38 filingsthrough 2026
Edward KrenikBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc. Admin. Cong. Affairs, EPA (2001-03); Leg. Director, Rep. Frelinghuysen (1994-2001); Leg. Asst./Assoc. Staff Rep. Dean Gallo (1989-94); Leg. Asst. Sen. Durenberger (1987-89)38 filingsthrough 2020
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 1733 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate14 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 78 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: bombardier-recreational-products.
15 filings
$650K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$40K 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.
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby
13 filingsthrough 2020
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994 Leg Director, Rep. Kind, 1999-2002 Chief of Staff, Rep. Kind, 2003-20098 filingsthrough 2020
JAMES CHARLES HERBERT jrBracewell LLPCovered position: Legislative Advisor, Rep. Canseco (2011-2013)8 filingsthrough 2015
M Justin AckleyBracewell LLP8 filingsthrough 2013
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025).6 filingsthrough 2026
Justin KintzForbes-TateCovered position: Special Assistant, External and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior (2007-2009).3 filingsthrough 2025
John David LeeBracewell LLP3 filingsthrough 2015
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).2 filingsthrough 2026
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Orrin Hatch2 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.