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.
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: bytedance-inc.
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.
CPI
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 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.
118th Congress
ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 686118th CongressRESTRICT Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 503118th CongressNo TikTok on United States Devices Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 347118th CongressANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 85118th CongressNo TikTok on United States Devices Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20227 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20216 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1140116th CongressRights for Transportation Security Officers Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7521119th CongressUnited States-Cuba Trade Act of 20264 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1367119th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20264 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Kim Lipsky
Bytedance Inc.
Covered position: Staff Director, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; Staff Director, Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Staff Director, Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
26 filingsthrough 2026
Albert CalamugBytedance Inc.25 filingsthrough 2026
Edgar Mcconnell AbramsBytedance Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to US Senator Dean Heller; Chief of Staff to US Congressman Dean Heller; Communications Director to US Senator David Vitter; Communications Director to US Congressman Jim McCrery25 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BloomBytedance Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst., Dir. of Intergovernmental Affairs, Dep. Policy Dir. and Sr. Advisor - House Democratic Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Policy Associate, Dep. Policy Dir. and Dir. of Intergovernmental Affairs - Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi25 filingsthrough 2026
Michael E HackerBytedance Inc.Covered position: Communications Director, Office of Rep. John Dingell; Floor Director, Office of the House Majority Whip; Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader; Senior Advisor, Office of the House Majority Whip25 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BeckermanBytedance Inc.Covered position: LC/LA - Rep. Fred Upton; LD - Northeast-Midwest Cong. Coalition; LD-Rep. Conaway; Policy Director - Rep. Fred Upton; Comm. Deputy Staff Director Energy & Commerce Committee25 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen Anthony MartinkoBytedance Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst, Rep Gibbons; LA, Rep Porter; Floor Debate Coord/Dir of Floor Debate, House Rep Conf; LD/Dep CoS/CoS, Rep Shuster; Dep Staff Dir, House T&I Committee25 filingsthrough 2025
FREDERIC BARNES iiiBytedance Inc.Covered position: Spec. Assistant to the Deputy Whip - Rep. Eric Cantor; Floor Assistant, Majority Whip - Rep. Kevin McCarthy24 filingsthrough 2025
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin19 filingsthrough 2023
Jason SamuelsBytedance Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director - Rep. Mike Johnson; Comm. Director - Republican Study Cmte.; Director of Strategic Comm. - Senate Republican Conf. Vice Chair Sen. Joni Ernst; Comm. Director/Press Sec./Leg. Asst./Leg. Correspondent/Staff Asst. - Sen./Rep Jeff Flake.16 filingsthrough 2024
Alex HarmanBytedance Inc.Covered position: LC/Leg Aide, Sen. Bayh; Leg Counsel/Gen Counsel, Sen. Mark Udall; Senior Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. Hirono; Staff Dir/Chief of Staff, Rep. Horsford; White House Liaison, Dept. of Homeland Security14 filingsthrough 2026
David LieberBytedance Inc.13 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman13 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth OblingerBytedance Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide - Sen. Rob Portman12 filingsthrough 2026
David J. UrbanLgl Advisors LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter; Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission; Board of Visitors, USMA12 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph TrahernK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Bob Matsui; Chief of Staff Rep. Doris Matsui10 filingsthrough 2026
Carl SzaboBytedance Inc.9 filingsthrough 2026
Carolyn LowryBytedance Inc.9 filingsthrough 2022
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance7 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel Gerald MiclotK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2024
David J. UrbanBytedance Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter6 filingsthrough 2021
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy6 filingsthrough 2020
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce6 filingsthrough 2020
Kathryn Christensen MillsMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren6 filingsthrough 2020
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy6 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman6 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 37 of 57 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
