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.
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President
The filings
The 20 most recent of 120 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: center-for-responsible-lending.
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.
18 filings
$430K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$400K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
18 filings
$290K on those filings
Veterans
VET
16 filings
$340K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$110K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
9 filings
$240K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$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.
9 filings
through 2010
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5050116th CongressVeterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5912117th CongressClose the ILC Loophole Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2133110th CongressHOMES Act6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S.J.Res. 15117th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency relating to "National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders".5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3211113th CongressMortgage Choice Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3915110th CongressMortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.J.Res. 35117th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency relating to "National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders".4 filingsthrough 2022
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.
24 filings
through 2024
James HylandThe Pennsylvania Avenue GroupCovered position: LD to Sen. Faircloth; LD to Sen. Hutchison24 filingsthrough 2014
Craig KalkutWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief Staff, Senator Kent Conrad23 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer LatouretteVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Press Intern/Dep Fin Dir, Senator Max Baucus17 filingsthrough 2012
Marda RobillardVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Howard Wolpe16 filingsthrough 2013
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: N/A15 filingsthrough 2012
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress12 filingsthrough 2011
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Labor, HUD12 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher BukiWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative John Culberson; Legislative Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bill Shuster; Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative David McKinley9 filingsthrough 2024
Dallas SweezyMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dir, CMS; Dir, Dept. of Ag; LD, Dept. of Labor9 filingsthrough 2011
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury9 filingsthrough 2011
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Vic Fazio9 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey L TaylorMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. D. McIntosh; LA, Sen. Humphrey; HHS9 filingsthrough 2010
Ashley DavisS-3 GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President7 filingsthrough 2026
