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.
William Kam QuarlesMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: 1993: Legislative Assistant, Representative Ken Calvert; 1991-1992: District Office, Senator John Seymour20 filingsthrough 2016
Edward RuckertLaw Offices of Edward M Ruckert9 filingsthrough 2024
Brian BallardBallard Partners7 filingsthrough 2025
Jeff MillerBallard PartnersCovered position: Former Member U.S. Congress7 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 66 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: california-avocado-commission.
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.
TAX
15 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
13 filings
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$30K 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
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5326112th CongressDepartment of Justice Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2375112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5326113th CongressDependent Care Savings Account Act of 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 6083113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 2375113th CongressColorado News, Emergency, Weather, and Sports Act of 20141 filingthrough 2013
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.
Katie SchoettlerFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Communications Director & Senior Advisor - U.S. Senator Steve Daines; Press Secretary - House Committee on Natural Resources
3 filingsthrough 2025
Jerry C HillMcdermott Will & Schulte LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Edward M RuckertMcdermott Will & Schulte LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Mark SpannagelRepublic Strategy Group LLC2 filingsthrough 2026
Karen WilliamsMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: 2015: Legislative Director, Rep. Bob Goodlatte; 2011-2014: Legislative Director, Rep. Steve Southerland; 2001-2010: Legislative Director, Rep. Adam Putnam; 1999-2000: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charles Canady1 filingthrough 2021
Richard PascoWatkinson Miller PLLC1 filingthrough 2008
Michael R McleodWatkinson Miller PLLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
