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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
97 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Advertising
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 34 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1053114th CongressTo establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to improve provisions relating to collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher Lee PedigoDigital Content NextCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Hon. Roger Wicker58 filingsthrough 2026
Michael E. DrobacMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Legislative Director to Sen Coleman, 05-06; Sen Hutchison 03-05; Sen Smith 97-9916 filingsthrough 2020
Amanda ArmisteadMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)15 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 114 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: digital-content-next.
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.
ADV
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
25 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$305K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$235K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$80K 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.
114th Congress
A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to improve provisions relating to collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children, and for other purposes.
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 418113th CongressDo-Not-Track Online Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2520115th CongressBROWSER Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 654112th CongressDo Not Track Me Online Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1895112th CongressDo Not Track Kids Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2710117th CongressOpen App Markets Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2992117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Choice Online Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2577112th CongressSAFE Data Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1207112th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1223112th CongressLocation Privacy Protection Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Michael DrobacDga Group Government Relations LLCCovered position: Legislative Director to Senator Coleman, Senator Hutchison, Senator Smith
14 filingsthrough 2025
Gregory WaldenDga Group Government Relations LLC14 filingsthrough 2025
Michael E. DrobacAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Coleman Leg Dir 05-06; Sen Hutchison 03-05; Sen ; ; Smith 97-9914 filingsthrough 2017
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg ; ; Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012- ; ; 14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, ; ; 1997-04; Leg Cnsl, Sen Leahy, 1993-9614 filingsthrough 2017
Adriana Santoni VicensDga Group Government Relations LLC9 filingsthrough 2025
Margeaux PlaistedDga Group Government Relations LLCCovered position: Staff Asst, Congressman Ramstad; Staff Asst. Executive Office of the President9 filingsthrough 2024
Casey Mulcahy DugganMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Leg Corr, Rep. Patrick McHenry, May 15-Feb 16; Staff. Asst, Rep. McHenry, Dec 14-May 15; Int, Rep. Renee Ellmers, Sep-Dec 14.9 filingsthrough 2019
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe9 filingsthrough 2017
Brett ScottDga Group Government Relations LLCCovered position: Research Assistant, House Energy and Commerce Committee; Senior Government Affairs official, US Dept. of Transportation;8 filingsthrough 2025
Mona G MohibMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Dept. of Labor; Special Assistant, Office Intergovernmental Affairs, White House; Assoc. Director, Office Intergovernmental Affairs, White House8 filingsthrough 2019
Michael E. DrobacDentons US LLPCovered position: Legislative Director for Senator Coleman and Senator Hutchison7 filingsthrough 2022
