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.
Timothy P HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc63 filingsthrough 2024
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc63 filingsthrough 2024
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff ; ; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec ; ; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec ; ; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv ; ; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv. ; ; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant48 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 278 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: emergent-biosolutions.
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.
148 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
103 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
74 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
16 filings
$750K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
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 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.
114th Congress
First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act
17 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2366117th CongressSTOP Fentanyl Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1457117th CongressSTOP Fentanyl Act of 202116 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1915114th CongressFirst Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act16 filingsthrough 2016
S. 987117th CongressCARA 3.0 Act of 202114 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3299114th CongressStrengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act of 201612 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4421118th CongressPreparing for All Hazards and Pathogens Reauthorization Act11 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2333118th CongressPandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act11 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4231117th CongressSTREAM Act10 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4341117th CongressCARA 3.0 Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 706117th CongressEmergency Support for Substance Use Disorders Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 166117th CongressEmergency Support for Substance Use Disorders Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3799117th CongressPREVENT Pandemics Act9 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.
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee36 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas Paul LathamHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & AssocCovered position: Member of Congress, 1995 - 2015; R-Iowa35 filingsthrough 2024
Robert J DotchinThe Advocacy Group35 filingsthrough 2018
William H HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc34 filingsthrough 2017
Gary J LapailleMcapitol Management23 filingsthrough 2014
John MilneMcapitol Management22 filingsthrough 2014
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate20 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd20 filingsthrough 2023
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby20 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Senator Rob Portman Communications Director, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Mike DeWine20 filingsthrough 2023
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Senator Orrin20 filingsthrough 2023
Jerry DriscollForbes-Tate19 filingsthrough 2023
Kristina DunklinForbes-Tate19 filingsthrough 2023
Keenan Austin ReedAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Donald McEachin; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Frederica S. Wilson18 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Director, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone.17 filingsthrough 2026
Neal PatelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: COS to Deputy Dir. for Mgmt., OMB (EOP); Deputy Assoc. Dir. for Leg Affairs, OMB (EOP); Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Cmte; Communications Dir. & Counsel, Senator Dean Heller; Communications Dir. & Counsel, Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr.; Com14 filingsthrough 2023
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate13 filingsthrough 2021
Robert J. DotchinDotchin & Associates, LLC13 filingsthrough 2021
Lawrence SpiveyAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee13 filingsthrough 2019
Mary Beth Savary TaylorThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Joint Economic Committee, General Counsel; U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant12 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)12 filingsthrough 2023
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.10 filingsthrough 2024
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 1710 filingsthrough 2021
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member9 filingsthrough 2025
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)9 filingsthrough 2022
Walter D HuddlestonHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc9 filingsthrough 2010
Stuart SpencerHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc9 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 26 of 42 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
