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.
Carlyle ThorsenRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: General Counsel, Rep. Tom DeLay; Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice; Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Legislative Counsel, Rep. McCollum and LoBiondo63 filingsthrough 2026
James FrenchRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Counsel, House Judiciary Committee63 filingsthrough 2025
Benjamin StaubRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, House Judiciary Committee10 filingsthrough 2026
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLP Member, United States House of Representatives
The filings
The 20 most recent of 81 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: directors-guild-of-america.
fees reported
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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.
17 filings
$500K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$360K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
5 filings
$280K 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.
115th Congress
Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 374113th CongressFix Gun Checks Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 6943118th CongressNo AI FRAUD Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7913118th CongressGenerative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.3 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.
Covered position:
8 filingsthrough 2020
Holly FechnerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel, Senate HELP Committee.7 filingsthrough 2020
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)1 filingthrough 2018
Matthew ShapankaCovington & Burling LLP1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
