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.
Defense
DEF
35 filings
$700K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
34 filings
$730K on those filings
Telecommunications
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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-corp.
TEC
31 filings
$670K on those filings
Banking
BAN
26 filings
$570K 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.
Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 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.
Genevieve M BeltroneCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Jon Tester; Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Tester; Staff Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester.9 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffery WalterCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Projects Director for Senator Alfonso D'Amato; Special Projects Director for Senator Connie Mack; Deputy Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee.7 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer Debes BangCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee; Legislative Director, Sr. Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Ander Crenshaw.6 filingsthrough 2018
Charles Patrick MichaelsCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Schweikert; Staff Assistant, Rep. Ted Budd; Intern, Senator James DeMint.2 filingsthrough 2026
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC2 filingsthrough 2016
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th district; Ranking member, House Ways and Means Committee; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation.2 filingsthrough 2016
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan.2 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
