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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
38 filings
$2.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.5 filingsthrough 2022
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV20 filingsthrough 2026
RANDOLPH KARL HERNDON jrCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Pat Toomey; Policy Director/Tax Counsel, Rep. Jim Renacci15 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: discovery-communications.
118th Congress
Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2450115th CongressFILM Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1469115th CongressLIFTT Act2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
S. 1115th CongressAn original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
S. 2256115th CongressTax Extender Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
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.
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Republican Policy Committee; Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Kyl; Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson.5 filingsthrough 2017
Melissa MuellerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Ways/Means Subc. Staff Director/Tax Counsel; Leg. Dir., Rep. Richard Neal; Tax Counsel, Sen. Finance Comm.; Counsel, Rep. Doggett; Leg Counsel Sen. Reid.5 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senate Finance Comm:Chief Democratic Tax Counsel; Sen. Finance Comm.: Tax Counsel/Chief Investigative Counsel; House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel.5 filingsthrough 2017
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.3 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
