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.
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: cedia.
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.
SMB
24 filings
$599K on those filings
Education
EDU
20 filings
$480K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
18 filings
$490K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$280K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$140K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
1 filing
$120K 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.
118th Congress
Freedom To Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 722118th CongressFreedom To Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1641119th CongressStudent Debt Alternative and CTE Awareness Act2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4105119th CongressVET Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2026
S. 244119th CongressROUTERS Act2 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2802119th CongressStudent Debt Alternative and CTE Awareness Act2 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4980119th CongressWater Emergency and Technical Assistance Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8915118th CongressEducation and Workforce Freedom Act1 filingthrough 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.
Michael Patrick ButtnerGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Thom Tillis (19-22); Staff Assistant, Sen. Thom Tillis (17-19)2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
