55 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2023 · latest filed Jan 23, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$3.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.5M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, US Treasury46 filingsthrough 2023
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis28 filingsthrough 2021
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. J. Talent18 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLC Leg. Ass't, Sen. Ron Wyden, Leg. Ass't, Rep. Rick Larsen
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: brewer-science-inc.
$640K
fees reported
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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.
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$760K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$440K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$240K 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
Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1468113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20226 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1605117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20234 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4663117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7178116th CongressCHIPS for America Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7612116th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3933116th CongressCHIPS for America Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2023
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall11 filingsthrough 2023
Samantha Sheehan BilottaBanner Public Affairs, LLC11 filingsthrough 2015
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Labor, HUD11 filingsthrough 2013
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury11 filingsthrough 2013
Alex MaggosBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Mark Kirk6 filingsthrough 2018
Kevin GundersenBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Sr. Staff, House Homeland Security Cmtee; Staff Dir., Subcmtee on Counterterrorism & Intel.4 filingsthrough 2014
Sarah MartinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Rep. Cleaver2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 10 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
