137 filings from 9 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Feb 18, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$3.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.9M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: credit-suisse-securities-usa-llc.
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.
FOR
16 filings
$840K on those filings
Banking
BAN
15 filings
$760K on those filings
Retirement
RET
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$230K on those filings
Housing
HOU
2 filings
$120K 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.
3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 605111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 1675114th CongressCapital Markets Improvement Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
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 2017
Manus CooneyAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee25 filingsthrough 2018
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.21 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel R MurphyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HUD Secretary; Personal Aide Vice President Quayle; Field Rep. Sen. Quayle; Intern Rep. Hiler; Intern, Sen. Quayle20 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt20 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency14 filingsthrough 2023
Stuart E EizenstatCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Trade (1996-1997), U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. (93-96)12 filingsthrough 2014
Alan P LarsonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: for International Finance and Development, (1993-1996), Ambassador to the OECD (1990-1993), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, for Economic and Business Affairs (88-90), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for, International Energy Resources (1987-1988)12 filingsthrough 2014
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst to President Bush & Deputy Dir. OPL, Policy Advisor, Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist, Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts, Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker; COS, Rep. Walker12 filingsthrough 2014
Matt HoffmannBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing11 filingsthrough 2021
Edward J RosenCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP11 filingsthrough 2012
Peter RichRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee11 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew EckDiroma Eck & Co. LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs (TFI); Senior Policy Advisor, House Financial Services Committee; Legislative Assistant, Senator Pat Roberts10 filingsthrough 2023
Michael DiromaDiroma Eck & Co. LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs (International); Tax Counsel, Senator Susan M. Collins10 filingsthrough 2023
Victor FleischerDiroma Eck & Co. LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Tax Counsel, Senate Committee on Finance (Senator Ron Wyden)10 filingsthrough 2023
Colin D LloydCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP8 filingsthrough 2012
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2017
Peter TrooboffCovington & Burling LLP7 filingsthrough 2014
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee Staff Dir. (09-10), House Rules Comm Deputy Staff Dir (07-08), House Select Committee on Voting, Irregularities, General Counsel, detailed, (9/07-9/08)7 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ThompsonRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Brownba7 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathan MantzBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing6 filingsthrough 2020
Laura C KlimpelCleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP5 filingsthrough 2010
Ashlyn TeelVendorpass, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Crapo, 2013-2015 Legislative Correspondent, Senator Crapo, 2011-2013 Staff Assistant, Senator DeMint 2020-20114 filingsthrough 2022
Michael CaballeroCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Int. Tax Counsel, Department of the Treasury4 filingsthrough 2019
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee4 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 36 of 52 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
