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: cme-group-inc.
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
AGR
90 filings
$30M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
24 filings
$7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$880K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$800K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$450K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$400K 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.
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4659115th CongressTo require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to recognize the exposure-reducing nature of client margin for cleared derivatives.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4763118th CongressFinancial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 328117th CongressWall Street Tax Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 647116th CongressWall Street Tax Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2735117th CongressTax on Wall Street Speculation Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4895116th CongressCFTC Reauthorization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4413113th CongressCustomer Protection and End User Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2014
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.
66 filingsthrough 2026
Moses MercadoOgr64 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: COSRepConfCOS/DCOS/LDHensarlingDirGramm55 filingsthrough 2026
James WilliamsOgrCovered position: Advr,Durbin;Dir,Bank Sub Eco Pol;Advr,Biden4 filingsthrough 2009
John GreenOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/ Leg Aide, Sen Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern1 filingthrough 2022
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 20 of 32 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
