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: direct-selling-association.
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.
LBR
32 filings
$30K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$60K 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.
117th Congress
Consumer Protection and Recovery Act
7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3522116th CongressPreserving Direct Seller Independence Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5419118th CongressDirect Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5038117th CongressPreserving Direct Seller Independence Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2159118th Congress21st Century Worker Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3495119th CongressDirect Seller and Real Estate Agent Harmonization Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.J.Res. 116118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act".4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3410117th CongressThe Consumer Protection and Due Process Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5230114th CongressAnti-Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4664118th CongressMaking appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2024
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 Barbera
Acg Advocacy
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon
14 filingsthrough 2018
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen12 filingsthrough 2018
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy12 filingsthrough 2018
Gerald Craig WellerNwg Advocacy LLCCovered position: former Member of Congress10 filingsthrough 2017
David MillerNwg Advocacy LLC10 filingsthrough 2017
