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: cigar-association-of-america.
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.
10 filings
$291K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$146K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
H.R. 976110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1027110th CongressPACT Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5178111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5486111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3288111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2932110th CongressTo amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5689110th CongressSmuggled Tobacco Prevention Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2685110th CongressTruth in Cigarette Labeling Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Federal Policy Group, LLC
Covered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee6 filingsthrough 2024
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 President6 filingsthrough 2024
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Represenative Robert Aderholt6 filingsthrough 2024
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 Conrad6 filingsthrough 2024
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 McKinley6 filingsthrough 2024
John GodfreyFederal Policy Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2010
Wendell FordDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin CaseyS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Dir, Dem Caucus; Counselor, Leg. Dir, Leg. Asst, Rep. Joseph Crowley; Staff Asst, Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Weygand2 filingsthrough 2025
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 President2 filingsthrough 2025
Pat RaffanielloFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster2 filingsthrough 2008
James F CarlisleFederal Policy Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 18 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
