Discover Financial Services, Inc. — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Discover Financial Services, Inc.
District of Columbia
113 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed May 23, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$3.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.6M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
83 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN
29 filings
$840K on those filings
Education
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 58 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 4674118th CongressContent Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2016
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: discover-financial-services-inc.
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.
EDU
21 filings
$610K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
16 filings
$480K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$230K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$150K 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.
116th Congress
Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations Act, 2020
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5244110th CongressCredit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Clifford Nmn RobertiFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Rep. Randy Neugebauer; Senior Policy Advisor, House Committee on Financial Services; Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Financial Services.18 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Newbold CastleDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Member of Congress18 filingsthrough 2019
Joshua H RaymondVenable LLPCovered position: Budget and Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Darlene Hooley; Chief of Staff, Rep. Christopher S. Murphy16 filingsthrough 2025
Liz AlbertineDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief of Staff (and other positions), Rep. DeLauro12 filingsthrough 2025
Karolina AriasFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Office of Senator Chris Van Hollen, Policy Advisor Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs- Legislative Assistant and Staff Director Office of Senator Herb Kohl, Legislative Assistant. Treasury Department Leg. Affairs Advisor12 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher M ScribnerVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2025
Saathvik Reddy AletyFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Judy Biggert; Communications Director and Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ed Royce; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Tim Scott; Subcommittee Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community11 filingsthrough 2025
Clifford RobertiDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Randy Neugebauer; Subcommittee Policy Director for Housing and Insurance, Committee on Financial Services7 filingsthrough 2017
Edward BurgessVenable LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, United States House Committee on Financial Services; Legislative Assistant, United States House Committee on Financial Services; Professional Staff, United States House Committee on Financial Services6 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah DonovanDla Piper LLP (US)6 filingsthrough 2018
Alex PinsonDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Schedule C appointee, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Senior Legis. Asst. and Counsel (and other positions), Rep. Hal Rogers; Intern, Rep. Cory Gardner; Intern, Rep. Trey Gowdy4 filingsthrough 2025
Yardly Pollas-KimbleVenable LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Bobby Rush4 filingsthrough 2022
Brian ConlanFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant-Office of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin; Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Deputy Legislative Director-Office of Senator Tammy Baldwin3 filingsthrough 2025
Anne KierigVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate, Sen. Richard J. Durbin; Legislative Assistant and Director of Correspondence, Sen. Richard J. Durbin; Legislative Assistant/Director of Special Projects, Sen. Dianne Feinstein3 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew C BernsteinDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: L.A., Sen. Metzenbaum; Prof Staff, Housing Bankin2 filingsthrough 2009
David LieberDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: LA/LC, Sen. Judiciary Cmte and Sen. Durbin2 filingsthrough 2009
John A MerriganDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew D EskinDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2008
Jessica WoolleyDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Assistant for Reps. Bean, Schuler, Loebsack, Hill and Obey.1 filingthrough 2018
Evan M MigdailDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2017
Melissa GierachDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Charles Boustany; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Dennis Ross; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. John Sullivan, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Cliff Stearns; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher1 filingthrough 2017
Jill KellerDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 21 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
