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.
B Robert OkunThe O Team LLCCovered position: Asst. to Speaker New Gingrich; Floor Asst. to House Republican Leader Robert H. Michel; Asst. Secretary of Education for Legislation, DOE24 filingsthrough 2022
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (2006-2007); Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (2002-2007); Deputy Staff Dir., Senate Democratic Conference Committee (1999-2002)22 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer OlsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham (2005-2010); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Graham (2003-2005); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe (2001-2003)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 114 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-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.
TAX
39 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
28 filings
$734K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
26 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
21 filings
$664K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
18 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
15 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
15 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
15 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$3.7M 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
Turn the Tide Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2738110th CongressFamily and Consumer Choice Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3359110th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3389110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the election to treat the cost of qualified film and television productions as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7913118th CongressGenerative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8818118th CongressAmerican Privacy Rights Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3396110th CongressSales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6320110th CongressTwenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 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.
22 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy A MolinoTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmte. (2010-2011); Counsel, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (2010)22 filingsthrough 2026
Estuardo Valdemar RodriguezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Attorney, HUD19 filingsthrough 2024
Diego SanchezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Representative Mike Coffman19 filingsthrough 2024
Neil FriedDiscovery Communications, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sr. Counsel, Counsel - House Energy and Commerce Committee16 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary ShabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi14 filingsthrough 2023
Rebecca AndersonAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs12 filingsthrough 2019
Michael BeerAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA, Rep. Dave Hobson12 filingsthrough 2019
Bert CarpAlignment Government Strategies12 filingsthrough 2019
Leo C JardotAlignment Government Strategies12 filingsthrough 2019
Jenny DijamesAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer12 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick PetteyAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Bob Smith11 filingsthrough 2019
Enumale AgadaDiscovery Communications, LLCCovered position: Oversight Counsel, Sr. Advisor to the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Acting Director - US House9 filingsthrough 2026
Estuardo Valdemar RodriguezIntersect Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Attorney, HUD9 filingsthrough 2026
Diana Marcela FernandezIntersect Public Affairs, LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Alexandra VerveerDiscovery Communications, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Mary PittelliDiscovery Communications, LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Joseph RussoTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Dir Cltn, H Approp Cmte(Jan2023-Mar 2025);SAP&Dep Dir, WH OPL(Jul2020-Jan2021);SAP&Dir Biz Otrch, WH OPL(Mar-Jul 2020);AD, WH OPL(Feb2019-Mar2020);Dep AD, WH OPL(Aug2018-Feb2019);Cltn Dir, H Jud Cmte(Jan 2014-Aug 2018);LC, Rep.Goodlatte(Jan-Dec2013).4 filingsthrough 2026
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher4 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
