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.
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
David Joseph LeiterPlurus Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Wendell Ford; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator John Kerry; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy22 filingsthrough 2026
Paul EpplerPlurus Strategies, LLC18 filingsthrough 2025
Jean CornellPlurus Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2025
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst POTUS WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Deputy Dir.WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Dir Floor Ops,US House1/18-12/18 Special Asst,POTUS WH Leg.Affairs1/17-12/17 Floor Asst,US House1/11-8/14 Staff Asst,House Rep.Conf2/09-12/10 Staff Asst WH Leg Afrs6/08-1/09
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: dte-energy-company.
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.
BUD
2 filings
$60K 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.
119th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
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.
4 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel ScalesThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, USTR (2025); Deputy Assistant, USTR (2019-2020); Coalitions Director, House Natural Resources (2015-2016)4 filingsthrough 2026
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: 2001- 8/4/2013 - US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority3 filingsthrough 2026
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018) Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007) Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/04)3 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: WH:Obama:Natl Ecnmc Cncl:Spec Asst Preesident&CofS WH:Obama:Exec Ofc-President TRD Rep:Asst US TRD Rep for Private Sector Engagement Sen John Walsh CofS Sen Max Baucus:Deputy CofS/Political Dir Rep.Earl Blumenauer:Exec Asst&Deputy Press Sec1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
