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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$910K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-
Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-
Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means
Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern26 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff dir, H Ways & Means Subcomm on Sel Rev Measures, Mar 01-Mar
04; staff, H Ways & Means Subcom on Oversight, Jun 98-Mar 0123 filingsthrough 2026
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin3 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: carrier-corp.
spend on filings that named this issue
Justin MccarthyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst.
USTR for cong affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR for
intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep
Thomas w. ewing,jan96-jul98.
3 filingsthrough 2020
Casey Christine HigginsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst to Spkr for Policy and Trade Cnsl, Paul Ryan, Nov 15-Jan 19; Trade Cncl to House Ways & Means, Jan 15-Nov 15; LC to Rep. Paul Ryan, Oct
11-Jan 15; Law Clrk House Budget Comm, Sep 09-May 10.3 filingsthrough 2020
Cara MorrowAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dept. of Commerce Intl Trade Admin., Dir. of Policy (Feb 2021-Oct. 2023); Sr. advsr, USTR, (Oct. 2023-Jan.2025).1 filingthrough 2026
Sam OlswangerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff, Rep Webster, Jan 11-Jun 11; intrn, Rep Blackburn, Sep 08-Dec 081 filingthrough 2024
Brendan DunnAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Mbr and Leg Asst to Sen Hatch Judiciary Comm and Sub-Comm, Apr04-May07, Aug07-May08; Special Counsel to Sen Hatch Fin Comm, Jan 11-Dec 12; Policy Adv and Counsel to Sen McConnell Majority Leader staff, Dec 12-May18.1 filingthrough 2021
Joshua TeitelbaumAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2014-2016; Staff Director, US
Senate HELP Subcommittee on Children and Families, 2013-2014;
Legislative Assistant, Senator Kay Hagan, 2011-2013; Legislative
Counsel, Congressman Steve Israel, 2009-20111 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 9 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.