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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$360K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 filingsthrough 2020
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee15 filingsthrough 2023
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud. Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal COunsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip15 filingsthrough 2023
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader,; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader15 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-one-financial.
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Banking
BAN
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
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.
116th Congress
CARES Act
4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4674117th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20222 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.
Whitaker L Askew
Avoq, LLC
15 filingsthrough 2023
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir. WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries14 filingsthrough 2023
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.12 filingsthrough 2023
Rebecca Louise ShawAvoq, LLCCovered position: (Rep. Devin Nunes), Paid Intern, (Rep. Chris Gibson), Legis. Assistant, SR Legis. Assistant, Legis. Dir., Dep. Chief of Staff & Legis. Dir., (Rep. Trey Hollingsworth), Chief of Staff.6 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
