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.
Small Business
SMB
33 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
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: bowling-proprietors-association-of-america.
LBR
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$72K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
1 filing
$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.
115th Congress
Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act
1 filingthrough 2018
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.
Emily Jean GreenMichael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2023
Lewis PolayMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2023
Ryan LosakMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House Edu/Workforce Cmte; Leg Correspondent, Rep. John Kline; Leg Correspondent, Leg Aide, Leg Assistant, Sen. John Boozman3 filingsthrough 2026
Harrison CollinsMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Edgar VazquezMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23)2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
