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: envelope-manufacturers-association.
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.
22 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$440K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$240K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 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
PAPER Act
8 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1877119th CongressImproving Disclosure for Investors Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
S. 569119th CongressPOSTAL Act8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2807119th CongressPostal Service Transparency and Review Act7 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1604119th CongressNo RTO Act7 filingsthrough 2026
H.Res. 97113th CongressExpressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should take all appropriate measures to ensure that citizens continue to be provided with paper-based information, products and services, and public notices while providing, where appropriate, the ability for all citizens to opt-in to electronic delivery if they so choose.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3004119th CongressUSPS SERVES US Act6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3383119th CongressIncentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1789112th Congress21st Century Postal Service Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4119th CongressRescissions Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2309112th CongressPostal Reform Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee6 filingsthrough 2020
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip6 filingsthrough 2020
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader6 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance; Leg Asst., Senator Baucus6 filingsthrough 2020
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLC6 filingsthrough 2020
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries6 filingsthrough 2020
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2020
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/4 filingsthrough 2020
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Counsel, Counsel, and Legislative Director, Sen. Sarbanes3 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth RobertsEnvelope Manufacturers Association2 filingsthrough 2023
