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: coalition-for-cannabis-policy-education-and-regulation.
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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.
38 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
38 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
38 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
38 filings
$1.8M 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.
118th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
H.R. 9026118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20254 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4795118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20254 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6673119th CongressTo amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify airport revenue use of local general sales taxes, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 9026119th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside, New York, as the "Detective Luis G. Alvarez Post Office".1 filingthrough 2025
S. 4795119th CongressFREEDOM Act1 filingthrough 2025
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.
Covered position: Asst Sec for the Minority Sen (2017-2018) Staff Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2014-2017) Policy Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2012-2014) LD Rep Hall (2007-2009) LA Sen Schumer (2003-2006) LC Sen Schumer (2001-2003)
27 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)22 filingsthrough 2025
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate21 filingsthrough 2025
Greg WaldenAlpine AdvisorsCovered position: US Congressman 1999-202119 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)18 filingsthrough 2025
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)18 filingsthrough 2024
Yaw ThompsonForbes-Tate12 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)10 filingsthrough 2023
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)7 filingsthrough 2026
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025).5 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan J TaylorForbes-TateCovered position: CD, S. Wicker (2013-2018); PA, Sen. Rep. Pol Comt (2012-2013); S. PA, Sen. Rep. Vice-Chair (2011-2012); PS, Rep. Lummis (2009-2010); Dep. CD, Sen. Barrasso (2007-2008); Dep. PS, S. Thomas (2007); Dep. CD, Sen. HELP (2005-2007); SA, S. Enzi (2004)5 filingsthrough 2024
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)5 filingsthrough 2022
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)2 filingsthrough 2022
Grace BelloneAlpine Advisors2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
