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.
Homeland Security
HOM
23 filings
$600K on those filings
Defense
DEF
23 filings
$600K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, US Treasury.29 filingsthrough 2022
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis25 filingsthrough 2021
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure; Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall15 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: coolfire-solutions.
7 filings
$180K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
6 filings
$110K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$60K 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.
117th Congress
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7608116th CongressState, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2474116th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2582116th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2583116th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6385115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 4662117th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
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: Leg. Ass't, Sen. Ron Wyden; Leg. Ass't, US Rep Rick Larsen.
14 filingsthrough 2019
Christian WhitonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, State Dept.10 filingsthrough 2020
Alex MaggosBanner Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
