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: cit-group-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.
TAX
36 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
13 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
12 filings
$2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$390K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$740K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
1 filing
$90K 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.
114th Congress
Imperial Valley Desert Conservation and Recreation Act of 2015
H.R. 4871113th CongressTRIA Reform Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4532114th CongressSafe Harbor for Reporting Violent Behavior Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4871114th CongressSanta Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2244114th CongressAFFIRM Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1893115th CongressSystemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 597114th CongressExport-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee13 filingsthrough 2016
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus ; ; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus ; ; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip13 filingsthrough 2016
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst., Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst., Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin., Asst., House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader13 filingsthrough 2016
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance ; ; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance ; ; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance ; ; Leg Asst., Senator Baucus13 filingsthrough 2016
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: COS,RepConf;COS/DCOS/LD,Hensarling;Dir,Gramm13 filingsthrough 2016
Tim KurthHeartland Strategies LLCCovered position: Assistant for the Speaker for Policy, Office of the Speaker of the House; Legislative Assistant (banking, securities, tech, telecom issues), Cong. Denny Hastert11 filingsthrough 2016
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sr. Comms. Advisor, Sen. Republican Conference9 filingsthrough 2013
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean9 filingsthrough 2013
Calvin P JohnsonMcdermott Will & Schulte LLP9 filingsthrough 2011
Stephen M RyanMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Organized Crime.9 filingsthrough 2011
David Duane RansomMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: (Steny Hoyer, Ranking Member)9 filingsthrough 2011
Annette C ValenzuelaCit Group Inc.Covered position: The Honorable Senator Crapo, 2004, Staff Assistant8 filingsthrough 2013
Vanessa A KermickCit Group Inc.Covered position: Sen Bob Smith, State Scheduler7 filingsthrough 2014
Maryam CopeGoldstein Policy Solutions LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Special Projects & Legislative Aide, Kay Bailey Hutchison; Legislative Correspondent, Kay Bailey Hutchison6 filingsthrough 2019
William O'NeillOgrCovered position: SrStaff/PolAdv,HouseCommGovReform;LD,Roe6 filingsthrough 2014
Megan FarrellTiber Creek Group6 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 31 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
