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.
Julie Eddy RokalaCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff- Congresswoman Doris Matsui; Special Assistant to the President; The White House32 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.29 filingsthrough 2026
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 159 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: charter-communications-operating-llc.
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.
BUD
21 filings
$750K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
15 filings
$790K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$30K 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.
117th Congress
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2784119th CongressStopping the Theft and Destruction of Broadband Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 6474116th CongressHealthcare Broadband Expansion During COVID-19 Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 754119th CongressFarm and Food Cybersecurity Act of 20251 filingthrough 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.
29 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew WinerStrategies 360Covered position: Chief of Staff - Sen. Brian Schatz25 filingsthrough 2025
Norberto SalinasSalinas Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Committee on the Judiciary21 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst to the President & House Liaison,Special Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs,Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB,Special Asst to Undersecretary,Dept of Energy,Policy Advisor to Chairman of Energy&Commerce Committee21 filingsthrough 2026
Barbara SuttonCassidy & Associates, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2023
Kai AndersonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Reid20 filingsthrough 2023
Darrel ThompsonThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senior
Advisor to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Policy Advisor
and Director of Member Services to House Democratic Leader Richard
Gephardt17 filingsthrough 2024
Clayton Patrick HayesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Evan Bayh, D-IN; Staff Director - Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.14 filingsthrough 2024
Kwabena Kwabena NsiahThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Congressional Black Caucus, Policy Director; Rep. Richmond, Chief of Staff14 filingsthrough 2024
Hawley StantonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant to Representative Robert Latta11 filingsthrough 2026
Julie HrdlickaElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, US Dept. of Transporation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation; Staff Assistant, Office of US Senate Mark Dayton.11 filingsthrough 2022
Sudafi HenryThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Major Owens; Legislative Director for Rep.
Emanuel Cleaver; Counsel & Sr. Policy Advisor for Rep. Steny Hoyer; Asst. and Dir. of Legislative Affairs for VP Joe Biden8 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel GomezContinental Strategy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide to Senator Deb Fischer7 filingsthrough 2026
Alberto Enrique MartinezContinental Strategy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Marco Rubio7 filingsthrough 2026
Lori DenhamKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Assistant - Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA; Legislative Director - Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR7 filingsthrough 2025
Saul HernandezThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant-Rep. Frank W. Ballance, Jr.; Special Assistant, Systems Admin., Legislative Correspondent, Deputy Press Secretary, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff and Acting Chief of Staff-Rep. G.K. Butterfield7 filingsthrough 2024
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, 1997-04; Leg Cnsl, Sen Leahy, 1993-967 filingsthrough 2016
Ashley GunnMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Special Asst to the President, Senior Director, White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.6 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen RuppelMiller Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2026
Jesse BarbaCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Cong Ed Towns-Legislative Assistant; Cong Marcia L. Fudge -Legislative Assistant6 filingsthrough 2019
Georgette Michel KerrPlurus Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2019
David Joseph LeiterPlurus Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Wendell Ford; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator John Kerry; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy6 filingsthrough 2019
Carlos TrujilloContinental Strategy, LLCCovered position: Former US OAS Ambassador5 filingsthrough 2025
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Congressman Roger F. Wicker (MS-01): Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff House Appropriations Committee: Associate staff, Congressman Roger F. Wicker US Senator Roger F. Wicker: Chief of Staff. (No Senate)3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 29 of 36 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
