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.
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
23 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 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.
Daniel GraverAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: ​Leg asst, Rep Giffords, 2007-08; leg aide, Rep Grijalva, 200524 filingsthrough 2025
Sean FeelyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld12 filingsthrough 2024
Matthew HittleAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Asst, H Comm W&M May, 11-Jan. 12; Sr Staff Asst, H Comm W&M, Jan 12-May 12; Leg Asst, H Comm on W&M Ovrst Subcom, May 12-Feb 15; Sr Leg Asst, Rep Noem, Feb. 15-March 17; LD, Rep. Noem, March 17-Dec 18; Sr Advisr to Administr, CMS, Dec 18-Dec 2010 filingsthrough 2023
Louis AgnelloAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Snr Cnsl, Joint Econ Committee, Mar 17-Nov 17; Leg cnsl, Sen Heinrich, Apr 14-Mar 17; Leg Asst, Rep Doris Matsui, Dec 11-Apr 14; Leg Asst, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 09-Aug 09; Research Analyst, Senate Small Business Committee, Jun 07-Aug 08
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: centrient-pharmaceuticals-llc.
22 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$190K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$140K 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2023
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-046 filingsthrough 2023
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 005 filingsthrough 2021
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld4 filingsthrough 2021
Sam OlswangerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff, Rep Webster, Jan 11-Jun 11; intrn, Rep Blackburn, Sep 08-Dec 083 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Associate General Counsel, Acting Chief Counsel for China Enforcement, USTR, 1998-2007; Legal Advisor, U.S. Mission to the WTO, 2002-20053 filingsthrough 2022
Anna AbramAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dpty Comm, Pol, Leg, Intnl Affrs, FDA, Mar19Jan21; Mar17Mar19; Spcl Asst HHS, Jan21Mar17; Dec09Jan21; Hlth Dirctr, Sen Burr, Sen Hlth, L&P Comm, Apr09Dec09; Stff Mbr, Sen VA Comm, Feb09Apr09; AsstDrctr, WH Jan0709; LA, LC, SA, SenSantorum, May03Dec063 filingsthrough 2022
Mario RamirezAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2022
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 10.1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
