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.
Katie KachelChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Special Assist. to the Chief of Staff, Sen. Mikulski42 filingsthrough 2021
Adam NordstromChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Office of Senator Brownback30 filingsthrough 2017
Katie KachelBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Senator Barbara Mikulski (2003-2005)24 filingsthrough 2026
Donald John NordenChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC Legal Counsel, Office of Sen. Exon
The filings
The 20 most recent of 78 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: capital-metropolitan-transportation-authority.
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
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
20 filings
$990K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
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.
113th Congress
Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 510116th CongressBRACE Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 203116th CongressBRACE Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2288113th CongressCommuter Parity Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1116113th CongressCommuter Benefits Equity Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1462113th CongressRailroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 761112th CongressSan Joaquin Valley Transportation Enhancement Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 672112th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 721114th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 637114th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 721112th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1132111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 461111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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:
11 filingsthrough 2013
Richard ShermanBlank Rome Government Relations7 filingsthrough 2022
Dennis C VierraVierra Associates, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2010
Mara Stark-AlcalaChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Press Secretary, Senate Appropriations Committee; Senior Press Staff/Research Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee6 filingsthrough 2020
William N LaforgeWinstead PCCovered position: Shareholder6 filingsthrough 2009
JAMES L BAYLESS jrWinstead PCCovered position: Shareholder5 filingsthrough 2009
Keith HartwellChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Chris MccarthyChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC2 filingsthrough 2008
Addison SheppardBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Aide (2022) and Staff Assistant (2021-2022) to Congressman Filemon Vela1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
