Coalition for American Retirement LLC — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Coalition for American Retirement LLC
District of Columbia
18 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2021 · latest filed Oct 20, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$4.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$4.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1431116th CongressRetirement Security and Savings Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4117116th CongressIRA Preservation Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
Richard C SheaCovington & Burling LLP19 filingsthrough 2021
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst. to President Bush & Dep. Dir. OPL; Policy Adviser, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker19 filingsthrough 2021
Ed McclellanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Finance19 filingsthrough 2021
Christopher LowtherCovington & Burling LLP18 filingsthrough 2021
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: coalition-for-american-retirement-llc.
115th Congress
IRA Preservation Act of 2017
4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4117117th CongressTo establish the National Commission on Domestic Terrorist Attacks on the United States by Antifa, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1431117th CongressMetropolitan Statistical Area Stabilization Act3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2954117th CongressSecuring a Strong Retirement Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2021
S. 3781115th CongressRetirement Security and Savings Act of 20181 filingthrough 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.
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: WH Office of Leg. Affairs, Spec. Asst. to the President; Senator Michael F. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Sen. Maria Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel8 filingsthrough 2021
Jack Gunnar LundCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Law Clerk, Senate Finance Committee (2014)5 filingsthrough 2018
Jon KylCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (1995-2013)4 filingsthrough 2018
Jason EverettCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Judiciary Cmte., Democratic Dep. Chief Counsel/Counsel; Subcmte on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, Chief Democratic Counsel/Counsel; Rep. Mel Watt, Leg. Asst.; Sen. Boxer, Leg. Aide; Minority Bus. Dev. Agency, Asst. to the Dir2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
