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.
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: ebay-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.
CPI
179 filings
$33.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
167 filings
$35.6M on those filings
Postal
POS
151 filings
$32M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
149 filings
$35.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
132 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
87 filings
$22.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
78 filings
$20.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
59 filings
$10M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
43 filings
$16.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
37 filings
$15.5M 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.
112th Congress
Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses.
33 filingsthrough 2012
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201332 filingsthrough 2014
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201528 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 201125 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1452112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act25 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act25 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2775114th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 201524 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act21 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2193115th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 201720 filingsthrough 2018
S. 976115th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201720 filingsthrough 2018
S.Res. 309112th CongressA resolution supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses.20 filingsthrough 2012
S. 148111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.20 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 202119 filingsthrough 2022
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.
40 filings
through 2024
Ashley Shillingsburg AlderferEbay Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director for Congressman Robert A. Brady; Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director for Congressman Dave Loebsack.39 filingsthrough 2026
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus21 filingsthrough 2013
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist21 filingsthrough 2013
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy21 filingsthrough 2013
Charles B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger20 filingsthrough 2024
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln20 filingsthrough 2013
Deirdre StachMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Budget Analyst, House Science Committee19 filingsthrough 2017
John LawrenceEbay Inc.18 filingsthrough 2018
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress18 filingsthrough 2017
Hillary BrillEbay Inc.18 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 99 of 136 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
