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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: caterpillar-inc.
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.
TRA
89 filings
$58.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
65 filings
$60M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
59 filings
$53.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
58 filings
$46.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
39 filings
$37.9M on those filings
Education
EDU
38 filings
$42.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
38 filings
$36.2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
34 filings
$30.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$31.4M on those filings
Retirement
RET
27 filings
$28.5M 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
Innovation Act
13 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.11 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 597114th CongressExport-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2050114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1886114th CongressTo amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3326114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 961114th CongressPermanent Active Financing Exception Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1890114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20169 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.
Kevin KileyI-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 574
344 filings
2 lobbyists
Sharice DavidsD-Kansas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1347, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673
326 filings
2 lobbyists
Diana HarshbargerR-Tennessee-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 4148
323 filings
2 lobbyists
Ashley HinsonR-Iowa-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 3882
319 filings
2 lobbyists
Dina TitusD-Nevada-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 3882
319 filings
2 lobbyists
Raja KrishnamoorthiD-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 419 +1 more
318 filings
2 lobbyists
Bill HuizengaR-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673
314 filings
2 lobbyists
Chris PappasD-New Hampshire-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673
314 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy Whip41 filingsthrough 2023
Jason LynnCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell40 filingsthrough 2018
Jan FowlerThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Intern; Representative McCrery39 filingsthrough 2019
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: StaffAsst, DemPolicyComm; FlrAsst, MinoritySec ; ; Sr. Ldrship Advisor, Sen. Dorgan36 filingsthrough 2022
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senate Republican Cloakroom Assistant ; ; Senate Republican Floor Assistant ; ; Senate Assistant Secretary for the Majority ; ; Senate Secretary for Majority/for Minority34 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant to Sen. Dan Coats30 filingsthrough 2026
William C LaneCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Director, Global Government & Corporate Affairs30 filingsthrough 2015
Kai K. HirabayashiCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Labor Counsel, Senate HELP Committee26 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Speaker Newt Gingrich ; ; Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush24 filingsthrough 2019
HALEY REEVES BARBOUR srBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing19 filingsthrough 2017
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing19 filingsthrough 2017
Kelli BriggsThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, 12th Congressional District of Ohio; Chief of Staff, D.C. Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern for Rep. Tiberi15 filingsthrough 2021
Anne WallThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Legis Cor,Off Sen. Durbin;Flr Asst Off Sen. Durbin;Off Counsel,Off Sen Durbin;Flr Dir Off Sen Durbin;Spec Asst-President,Off Legis Affrs White House;Dep Asst-Pres&Sen Liaison, Off Legis Afrs,TWH;Cnslr-Sec Treasury; Asst Sec-Legis Afrs-Dept Treasury12 filingsthrough 2020
Anne Elliott BradburyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Small Business Admin (8/03-5/04) Rep Charles Boustany (2/05-8/05) Dep Floor Dir, Ofc of Maj Leader (Delay/Boehner) (8/05-12/05) Dep Floor Dir, Min Leader Boehner (1/06-12/10) Floor Dir, Spkr Boehner (1/11-10/15), Spkr Ryan (10/15-10/16)12 filingsthrough 2019
Kristopher DenzelCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Robert J. Dold11 filingsthrough 2024
Kenneth DubersteinThe Duberstein Group Inc.10 filingsthrough 2018
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018); Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007); Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/04)9 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph William AllenCaterpillar Inc.8 filingsthrough 2015
Margaret CaravelliCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Counsel, US House Committee on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, US House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology; and Senior Clean Air Act Counsel, US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.7 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn S HimesCaterpillar Inc.Covered position: Washington Manager, Govt Affairs7 filingsthrough 2010
Noushin JahanianThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor, Senate Democratic Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2011
