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: ceres-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.
40 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
33 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$330K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$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 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.
115th Congress
Financial CHOICE Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1412110th CongressBeginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3402119th CongressTo amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require certain disclosures by institutional investment managers in connection with proxy advisory firms, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
15 filingsthrough 2026
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, DoE; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Abraham15 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen Subcom on Educ, Arts & Humanities13 filingsthrough 2022
Jared Robert SoncrantInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Ast., Rep. Steve Scalise (2021-2023); Leg. Ast., Sen, Mike Enzi (2020-2021); Leg. Aide, Sen. Cory Gardner (2018-2020); Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Cory Gardner (2016-2018); Staff Ast., Sen. Cory Gardner (2015-2016)12 filingsthrough 2026
Max WhitcombInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Committee on Oversight and Reform (20-23); Sr Policy Advisor, Joint Economic Committee (18-20); Leg Asst, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (16-18); Leg Correspondent, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (15-16); Staff Asst, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (14-15)12 filingsthrough 2026
H Stewart Van ScoyocCapitol Decisions, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2011
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer10 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Office of the Speaker; General Counsel, Committee on House Oversight; Minority Counsel, Committee on House Administration10 filingsthrough 2020
DEAN BRAZIER jrK&L Gates, LLP8 filingsthrough 2020
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper6 filingsthrough 2023
Vivian BuckinghamCeres, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2010
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2022
Eugene ShestakovK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dan Sullivan4 filingsthrough 2021
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fatah3 filingsthrough 2023
Max FrankelInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Quigley (2021) Sr Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Quigley (2019-2021) Sr Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Quigley (2018-2019) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Quigley (2016-2018)3 filingsthrough 2023
Susan BrophyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Byron Dorgan; Chief of Staff, Senator Tim Wirth; Dep. Asst.to the President for Leg. Affairs3 filingsthrough 2022
Brian Steven GastonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Member Services Director, Republican Conference Committee, Chairman Dick Armey; Republican Conference Committee, Chairman John Boehner; Policy Director, House Majority Leader Dick Armey; Policy Director, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt3 filingsthrough 2022
Catharine Cyr RansomFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham; Professional Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; Sr. Climate and Environmental Advisor, Senator Max Baucus3 filingsthrough 2022
Peter Benton SullivanFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Intern, Rep. Mike Rogers.3 filingsthrough 2022
Mike IgerFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Carolyn Maloney; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Maurice Hinchey; Legislative Director, Rep. Maurice Hinchey; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Maurice Hinchey; Legislative Assistant,Staff Assistant Rep. Maurice Hinchey3 filingsthrough 2022
Megan MooreFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Special Advisor to the Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant, Department of the Treasury; Legislative Assistant, House of Representatives, Office of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr3 filingsthrough 2022
Ben SpringerFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)3 filingsthrough 2022
Colleen BellFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant and Counsel, Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper; Legislative Assistant, Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy.3 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel GomezFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Deb Fischer; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Deb Fischer; Staff Assistant, Senator Deb Fischer; Press Fellow, Rep. Val Demings3 filingsthrough 2022
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, Natioinal Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics3 filingsthrough 2021
Eric A. LoveK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: District Liaison/LA/Senior LA, Rep Watt; Special Asst, Office of Legislative Affairs, Dept. of Treasury3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 33 of 49 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
