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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$140K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant28 filingsthrough 2026
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel19 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew DoCovington & Burling LLP15 filingsthrough 2026
HENSEY FENTON iiiCovington & Burling LLP Intern, Office of Rep. Sue Myrick
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: dine-brands-global-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coin Act
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 20118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2826118th CongressSave Local Business Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1261118th CongressSave Local Business Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3889118th CongressModernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
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:
7 filingsthrough 2024
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Member, United States House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2022
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk6 filingsthrough 2021
Ed McclellanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Finance6 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew ShapankaCovington & Burling LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Nicholas XenakisCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senior Counsel, General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee2 filingsthrough 2025
Caitlin KouryCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Law Clerk, Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
