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
67 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
64 filings
$9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 8152117th CongressAmerican Data Privacy and Protection Act13 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1856118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Senate, Office of the Secretary for fiscal year 2024.12 filingsthrough 2024
Chris GiblinOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. John Carter; Legislative Director, Rep. Charlie Norwood18 filingsthrough 2026
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt18 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Bob Goodlatte; Communications Director, Rep. Tom Bliley; Press Secretary, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: directv-llc.
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.
CSP
57 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
32 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
31 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
13 filings
$1.7M 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.
118th Congress
Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 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.
18 filings
through 2026
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)18 filingsthrough 2026
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)18 filingsthrough 2026
Karissa WillhiteOgrCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Robert Menendez; Dep. Exec Director/ Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus; Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Robert Menendez18 filingsthrough 2026
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017)18 filingsthrough 2026
Greg BarnesTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Committee on the Judiciary18 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin William McgrannForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006)18 filingsthrough 2026
Dean AguillenOgrCovered position: Sr. Advisor/ Director of Member Services/ Floor Asst, Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Director Intergovt Affairs/ COS Cong. Affairs/ Special Asst, U.S. Department of Labor; LA, Rep. Max Sandlin17 filingsthrough 2026
Conrad LassOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff/ Special Assistant, U.S. Bureau of Land Management17 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew PlasterTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Broadband Policy Advisor, Senator Capito11 filingsthrough 2026
Jerome MurrayOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Stacey Plaskett; Legislative Director, Rep. G.K. Butterfield; Associate Director, Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, Sen. Harry Reid; Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fattah; Staff Assistant, Rep. Chaka Fattah8 filingsthrough 2024
Gordon TaylorOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff/ Legislative Director/ Counsel, Rep. Chris John4 filingsthrough 2026
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003)3 filingsthrough 2024
Troy StockTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Policy Counsel, Senate Republican Policy Committee; Staff Director, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology; Counsel, Rep. Jason Chaffetz2 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference; Chief of Staff/ Dep. Chief of Staff/ Legislative Director, Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Dir, Sen. Phil Gramm1 filingthrough 2022
Nicholas OrnsteinTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 18 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
