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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4181119th CongressWILTR Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4669119th CongressFEMA Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
Ana SchwabBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Rep. Keith Rothfus - Executive Assistant (1/2013-8/2014); Rep. Paul Gosar - Scheduler/Legislative Aide/Legislative Assistant (5/2011 - 6/2012)7 filingsthrough 2026
Lowry CrookBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President (June 2012-October 2015); Acting General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President (January 2014-April 2014)7 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher KeosianBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Rep. Lee: Operations Director (1/22-11/23), Scheduler & Operations Manager (10/20-12/21), Scheduler (7/20 -10/20); Rep. Swalwell: Special Assistant (7/19-12/19), Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent (6/18-4/19)7 filings
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-lake-forest.
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Insurance
INS
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Housing
HOU
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$60K 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.
119th Congress
SPEED Act
3 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2651119th CongressROAD to Housing Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4038119th CongressWildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2026
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.
through 2026
Madeline VoitierBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2026
Andre MonetteBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2025
Michael BrainBest Best & Krieger LLPCovered position: Interior Dept: Prin. Dep Asst Secy Water & Science (7/23-1/25), U.S. Bur Reclamation, Dep. Commiss. (3/22-7/23); US House: Approps Comm- Subcm Energy & Water Dev./Rltd Agencies, Prof. Staff (1/19-3/22), Comm Transp & Infra., Subcm Water Resour & Envi2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
