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.
Michael John SmahaCan Manufacturers InstituteCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations25 filingsthrough 2026
William FoxHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Legislative Staff Assistant House Transportation Committee14 filingsthrough 2026
Josef NovotnyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Reading Clerk - Office of Legislative Operations, Office of the Clerk. Chief Clerk - Committee on Education and Labor14 filingsthrough 2026
Christian MorganHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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: can-manufacturers-institute.
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.
20 filings
$10K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$90K 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
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 923117th CongressRECYCLE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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: Chief of Staff, Congresswoman Wagner
11 filingsthrough 2025
Marc HimmelsteinNational Environmental Strategies5 filingsthrough 2009
Richard WilsonNational Environmental Strategies5 filingsthrough 2009
Robert BudwayCan Manufacturers Institute3 filingsthrough 2022
David ThompsonCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: Assistant to Speaker of the House Rep. Hastert2 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew FisherHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: FPAC/USDA, Chief of Staff Senator McConnell, Legislative Aide Senator Blunt, Legislative Aide1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
