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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
131 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$50K 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
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1250111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
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: council-on-foundations.
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.
H.R. 1419110th CongressPublic Good IRA Rollover Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3501110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that indebtedness incurred by a partnership in acquiring securities and commodities is not treated as acquisition indebtedness by organizations which are limited partners for purposes of the unrelated business income tax.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 819110th CongressPublic Good IRA Rollover Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6800119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7594119th CongressWorkforce Development Through Post-Graduation Scholarships Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
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:
24 filingsthrough 2024
Matt DolanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senator David Durenberger24 filingsthrough 2015
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Chief cnsl & staff dir, H Ways & Means Comm, 1987-9319 filingsthrough 2016
Jayne FitzgeraldAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Tax cnsl, H Ways & Means Comm, 1980-85 and 1992-9519 filingsthrough 2016
Aharon FriedmanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means16 filingsthrough 2025
Marcus OwensCaplin & Drysdale, Chartered9 filingsthrough 2013
Haley GriffinThe Raben Group9 filingsthrough 2011
Robert RabenThe Raben Group9 filingsthrough 2011
Karen MarangiThe Raben Group9 filingsthrough 2011
Jennifer HolcombCouncil on FoundationsCovered position: LA & LD for Rep. Betty McCollum8 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Jeff HamondVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Economic Policy, Senator Evan Bayh8 filingsthrough 2014
John GodfreyFederal Policy Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2010
Edward ShimkusCouncil on FoundationsCovered position: Congressional Relations for USDA; LD for Rep. Sandy Levin; Staff Assistant, LA and LD for Rep. Tim Bishop5 filingsthrough 2026
Nidale ZouhirCouncil on FoundationsCovered position: Trade Intern for Senate Finance Committee5 filingsthrough 2026
