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
22 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$1.4M 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 — 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.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5894118th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002)23 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan McconaghyForbes-TateCovered 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) SA Sen Schumer (1999-2000)23 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate23 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-energy-assistance-modernization.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 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.
22 filings
through 2026
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)19 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)19 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Speaker John Boehner (2010-2013); Floor Assistant, House Speaker John Boehner (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006 -2010); Staff Member, Rep. Pat Tiberi (2004-2006)7 filingsthrough 2022
Derrick M WhiteForbes-Tate1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
