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.
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-0648 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-03
The filings
The 20 most recent of 188 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: churchill-downs-incorporated.
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.
26 filings
$880K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$155K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
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.
115th Congress
Horseracing Integrity Act of 2017
16 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1668114th CongressRestoration of America's Wire Act15 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1820116th CongressHorseracing Integrity Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2267112th CongressHome Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1597112th CongressFix America's Schools Today Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2266112th CongressDepartment of Defense Energy Security Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3018112th CongressA bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2-chlorobenzyl chloride.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 627112th CongressFaster FOIA Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2651116th CongressImproving Training for School Food Service Workers Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4505117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3084114th CongressThoroughbred Horseracing Integrity Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2267113th CongressAmerican Fuel Protection Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
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.
48 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-0248 filingsthrough 2026
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee40 filingsthrough 2020
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud. Cttee, Subctte On Juv. Just. ; ; Legal Extern, H. Jud. Cttee, Subcttee Crime/Crim. Just. ; ; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Legis. Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Chief Counsel, Floor Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem. Leader/Whip40 filingsthrough 2020
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader40 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth WesterChurchill Downs IncorporatedCovered position: Vice President Government Relations33 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus33 filingsthrough 2020
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'1231 filingsthrough 2026
D Brett HaleChurchill Downs IncorporatedCovered position: Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs17 filingsthrough 2014
Joel JohnsonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Exec. Director, House Democratic Study GroupAssistant Secretary of the Minority, U.S. SenateStaff Director, Democrat Leadership CommitteesSpecial Assistant to the President for Policy andCommunications16 filingsthrough 2015
Alex MistriFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Lauch FairclothLegislative Director, Rep. Robin HayesChief of Staff, Rep. Bill ShusterSpecial Assistant to the President for Legislative AffairsStrategic Analysis Officer, Department of State16 filingsthrough 2015
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Director, House Wednesday Group; Senior Advisor to Minority Whip and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich12 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick NeelyChurchill Downs Incorporated10 filingsthrough 2026
Parker H. PolingHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Spec. Asst to Dir. of Media Affairs 01-03; Comm. on Educ. and Workforce, Chairman Boehner 03-04; Law Clerk to Chairman Toner, FEC 05-06; COS, Cong. McHenry 07-14; COS, Chief Dep. Whip McHenry 14-18 in Office of Maj. Whip Scalise.9 filingsthrough 2023
