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: city-of-laredo-texas.
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.
18 filings
$900K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
15 filings
$710K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$630K on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
10 filings
$34K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Animals
ANI
1 filing
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20133 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.
through 2022
Gerard L LedererBest Best & Krieger LLP11 filingsthrough 2014
Jose BorjonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Rep V.Gonzalez, Jan 17- Feb 21; Snr Advsr/Dpty CoS, Rep F.Vela, Jun 14- Jan 17; Comm Drctr, Rep Gallego, Dec 13- Jan 15; Drctr Strtgy/Comm, Rep Reyes, Nov 11- Jan 13; Press Sec, Rep Cuellar, Jan 11- Nov 11; Comm Drctr, Rep Ortiz, Mar 09- Jan 18 filingsthrough 2026
Alex MonieAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate Fin Comm, Apr 17-Aug19; LC, Rep. Clay Higgins, Feb 17-Apr17; Staff Asst. House Ways & Means, Feb 16- Feb17; Intern, Sen. Cochran; Intern, Rep. Womack, Aug 15 - Oct 15.7 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen Timothy HofmannPatriot Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2023
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-045 filingsthrough 2021
Christina HaleyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2020
Ronald EritanoThe Normandy Group, LLCCovered position: LegCorr.SenLautenberg/LegAsst.RepDoggett3 filingsthrough 2019
Henry BonillaThe Normandy Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress (1993-2007)3 filingsthrough 2019
