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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
47 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5952115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
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: city-of-houston.
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.
DIS
34 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
22 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$610K on those filings
Housing
HOU
14 filings
$570K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
11 filings
$450K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
9 filings
$330K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$440K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$300K 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
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6147115th CongressInterior, Environment, Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3023115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3072115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3073115th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3109115th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20194 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3181110th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3260110th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6470115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
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.
9 filings
through 2021
Mary LandrieuVnf Solutions, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator (1997-2015)6 filingsthrough 2018
Zachary PaulsenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trd asst for pol, S Fin Comm, 2002-055 filingsthrough 2013
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 004 filingsthrough 2018
Jarvis StewartLaw Office of Harry JohnsonCovered position: Lobbyist4 filingsthrough 2014
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2020
Herman Gesser IiiVnf Solutions, LLCCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee; Chief Counsel and Projects Director for Sen. Landrieu3 filingsthrough 2018
Truman ReedAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dpty. CoS, Leg. Dir., Rep. De La Cruz (2023-2025); Leg. Asst. Rep. De La Cruz (2023); Leg. Asst. Rep. Young (2018-2020, 2020-2021); LC Rep. Young (2018); Intrn Sen. Sullivan (2017); Intrn Sen. Whitehouse (2016).2 filingsthrough 2026
