94 filings from 4 registrants · 2009–2026 · latest filed May 11, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
S. 350117th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Cornell TeagueAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Appropriations Cmte - Defense; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Cmte - Homeland22 filingsthrough 2026
Keenan Austin ReedAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Donald McEachin; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Frederica S. Wilson22 filingsthrough 2026
Lawrence SpiveyAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee22 filingsthrough 2026
Patrice StanleyCae USA Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 94 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: cae-usa-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.
28 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
20 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$940K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$230K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$320K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$60K 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.
19 filingsthrough 2025
Benjamin NicholsonCae USA Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations17 filingsthrough 2024
Eric ElsmoContinental Consulting Group Corporation12 filingsthrough 2014
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee11 filingsthrough 2023
Michael Kenneth HenryAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee9 filingsthrough 2023
Abbey OverlandAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Special Asst. Office of the Sec Def, Special Asst. Office of the Asst. Sec Def for Leg Affairs, Legislative Asst., Sen. Joni Ernst7 filingsthrough 2026
Colin BrainardAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Watkins; Executive Director, Joint Economic Cmte.; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Erik Paulsen; Dep. Chief of Staff, Rep. Lynn Jenkins; LC, Sen. Richard Burr7 filingsthrough 2026
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senior Leadership Advisor for Senator Byron Dorgan (Democratic Policy Committee Chairman)7 filingsthrough 2023
Stephen Price AnsleyContinental Consulting Group Corporation7 filingsthrough 2010
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: US Senate-Assistant Secretary for the Majority; US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority5 filingsthrough 2023
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst POTUS WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Deputy Dir.WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Dir Floor Ops,US House1/18-12/18 Special Asst,POTUS WH Leg.Affairs1/17-12/17 Floor Asst,US House1/11-8/14 Staff Asst,House Rep.Conf2/09-12/10 Staff Asst WH Leg Afrs6/08-1/094 filingsthrough 2023
Clare Catherine DohertyCae USA Inc.Covered position: Prog. Examiner, OMB; Dep. Dir. of Budget, Dept. of Interior; Dir. of Budget & Prog. Analysis, House Comm. on Trans. & Infrastructure; Subcommittee Staff Dir., Senate Comm. on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Trans., Housing & Urban Dev & Rel. Agencies4 filingsthrough 2023
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018)
Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007)
Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/04)4 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: WH:Obama:Natl Ecnmc Cncl:Spec Asst President&CofS
WH:Obama:Exec Ofc of President
TRD Rep:Asst US TRD Rep for Private Sector Engagement
Sen John Walsh CofS
Sen Max Baucus:Deputy CofS/Political Dir
Rep.Earl Blumenauer:Exec Asst&Deputy Press Sec3 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 15 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
