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: california-association-of-port-authorities.
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.
CAW
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$50K 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.
117th Congress
Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022
7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4908118th CongressExpedited Federal Permitting for California Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1917118th CongressClean Shipping Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
12 filingsthrough 2022
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak12 filingsthrough 2022
Ashley W CraigVenable LLP10 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey G WeissVenable LLPCovered position: Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, The White House; Senior Director, Technical Barriers to Trade, Office of the USTR; Assistant General Counsel, Office of the USTR3 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth K LoweVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
