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: convenience-distribution-association.
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.
TAX
42 filings
$750K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$550K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
21 filings
$500K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$520K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
11 filings
$160K on those filings
Banking
BAN
6 filings
$190K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
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.
117th Congress
Hemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act of 2021
7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1253116th CongressPreventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1595116th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3942116th CongressPreventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 659116th CongressBiologic Patent Transparency Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4121119th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
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.
through 2026
Thomas BriantThomas a. Briant, P.A.11 filingsthrough 2026
John W ThomasLange Thomas & Associates LLP (Formerly Luman Lange Thomas & Mcmullen LLP)10 filingsthrough 2017
Gene C LangeLange Thomas & Associates LLP (Formerly Luman Lange Thomas & Mcmullen LLP)Covered position: none10 filingsthrough 2017
Graham HallCapitol Decisions, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Senator Jeff Sessions; Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt1 filingthrough 2020
Katie PatruCapitol Decisions, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Staff Dir, Committee on House Admin; Dir of Member Services, Office of the Majority Leader; Deputy Communication Dir/Dir of Member Services, House GOP Conference; and Staff Asst/Leg Correspondent/Dep Press Secretary, Representative Eric Cantor1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
