21 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2023 · latest filed Oct 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
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.
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$350K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
1 filing
$20K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives14 filingsthrough 2023
Denise BodeMichael Best Strategies LLC13 filingsthrough 2023
Rachel SpiveyMichael Best Strategies LLC5 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffry Alexander NicholsMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives; Intern, Senate5 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: ecm-industries-llc.
spend on filings that named this issue
Michael Dankler
Michael Best Strategies LLC
Covered position: Chief of Staff, House of Representatives
5 filingsthrough 2022
Bridget ViscontiMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the USTR and Chief of Staff, Office of the United States Representative, Executive Office of the President; Executive Office Coordinator- Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President4 filingsthrough 2023
Harrison CollinsMichael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
