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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
39 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
38 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1166116th CongressUSE IT Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 383116th CongressUSE IT Act8 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP.29 filingsthrough 2022
Jerry DriscollForbes-Tate28 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: capitol-solutions-on-behalf-of-bipartisan-policy-center-advocacy-network-inc.
33 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$780K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$700K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$490K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Defense
DEF
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.
114th Congress
Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744114th CongressREFUND Act6 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate
28 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd13 filingsthrough 2022
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant - Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994; Leg Director - Rep. Kind, 1999-2002; Chief of Staff - Rep. Kind, 2003-2009.12 filingsthrough 2022
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch (2000-2001)11 filingsthrough 2022
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)9 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)8 filingsthrough 2021
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)3 filingsthrough 2022
Stacey RollandForbes-TateCovered position: Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2013-2016); Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (2010-2013); Special Assistant, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-2010); Tax Counsel, Rep. Xavier Becerra (2007-2009)2 filingsthrough 2021
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017)1 filingthrough 2022
John BuscherForbes-TateCovered position: LC, Sen. Alan Dixon; LA, Sen. Moseley-Braun1 filingthrough 2012
DANIEL C TATE jrForbes-TateCovered position: Spec. Asst. to Pres. Legis.Affairs; DAS-Dept of Energy ; ; LD-Rep. W.J. Bill Tauzin1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 12 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
