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.
Automotive Industry
AUT
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
22 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1298117th CongressClean Energy for America Act7 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ariel WolfVenable LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Sam Brownback; Counselor to the Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Transportation29 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak24 filingsthrough 2025
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: daimler-trucks-north-america.
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.
ENG
21 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$510K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
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.
Capitol Counsel LLC
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Ron Wyden; Legislative Director/Press Secretary, Senator Ron Wyden; and Staff Director, House Government Affairs Committee.
23 filingsthrough 2026
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLC22 filingsthrough 2026
Marco M. SylvesterVenable LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff, Dept. of Transportation; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Robert Pittenger19 filingsthrough 2025
David BonelliVenable LLPCovered position: Dept. of Transportation, NHTSA, Senior Attorney15 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph L RossoStrategic Policies, LLC14 filingsthrough 2015
John MartinCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Principal Associate Commissioner, FDA; Legislative Director, Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant; Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Cotton.12 filingsthrough 2026
Tess BrennanVenable LLP7 filingsthrough 2025
JAMES H BURNLEY ivVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2022
James ReillyVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Advisor, Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Carper5 filingsthrough 2023
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation4 filingsthrough 2020
Wesley SudduthVenable LLP3 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah DonovanVenable LLP3 filingsthrough 2020
Joseph L RossoWashington Advocacy Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2012
