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
89 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
49 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 59 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3622110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.6 filingsthrough 2008
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: darden-restaurants-inc.
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.
HCR
20 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
15 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
14 filings
$4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$960K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$620K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$550K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$330K 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.
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 687112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1398111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 772115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 261115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3729112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 273111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Marc J Gerson
Miller & Chevalier, Chtd
Covered position: Houe Ways and Means Committee Majority Tax Counsel
15 filingsthrough 2025
Marianna G DysonMiller & Chevalier, Chtd13 filingsthrough 2017
Michael MchughUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Gordon Smith13 filingsthrough 2015
Anne UrbanUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Tax Advisor, Sen. Bob Kerrey13 filingsthrough 2015
Sandra SwirskiUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel to Sen. Al Simpson13 filingsthrough 2015
William Johnson CoughlinUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Paid Intern to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II12 filingsthrough 2015
Vincent P ReusingVpr Associates12 filingsthrough 2012
Jennifer Yocham PoerschGuidepoststrategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2026
Leslie OgdenUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern to Sen. Kay Hagan8 filingsthrough 2015
T.J. BirkelUpland Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Assistant, US Senator Chuck Hagel (July '04- Oct'07) Legislative Assistant/Speechwriter, US Senator Mike Johanns (Jan '09- Nov '10)7 filingsthrough 2018
Kate BeaulieuGuidepoststrategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator David Vitter6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael DesmondMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel6 filingsthrough 2026
Sasha SimpsonUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern to Rep. Peter DeFazio3 filingsthrough 2012
Phil CoxGuidepoststrategies, LLC2 filingsthrough 2020
Jerr RosenbaumPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator John Cornyn; Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Hurt; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jack Kingston; Chief of Staff, Rep. Virgil Goode2 filingsthrough 2019
Laine Evans StriegelGuidepoststrategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2024
