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.
Automotive Industry
AUT
32 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$1.7M 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.
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB35 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman31 filingsthrough 2026
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce27 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 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: continental-tire-the-americas-llc.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
CARES Act
4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act4 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
11 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph NickersonAcg Advocacy11 filingsthrough 2023
Eriade WilliamsAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretrary - Rep. Albert Wynn11 filingsthrough 2020
Gabriel Perez-AlvarezAcg Advocacy9 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah KohnAcg Advocacy8 filingsthrough 2025
Cameron SewardAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Director, Integral Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement - USTR3 filingsthrough 2026
Roberto Adrian FierroAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2022
Owen ReillyAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
