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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN
108 filings
$2M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: federal-home-loan-bank-of-chicago.
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.
113th Congress
Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2860118th CongressSAFER Banking Act2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Covered position: Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security, International Trade & Finance; Minority Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment; Legislative Director, Rep. Sean Duffy
40 filingsthrough 2026
James J ButeraButera, Israel & Becker PLLC34 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan D IsraelButera, Israel & Becker PLLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant; Rep. Donald Manzullo (IL-16) 1995-9934 filingsthrough 2026
James J ButeraJones Walker, LLP28 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan D IsraelJones Walker, LLP27 filingsthrough 2018
Benjamin TurnerPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. John Delaney; Legislative Assistant and Legislative Counsel, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Aide, Rep. Joe Courtney26 filingsthrough 2022
Kelly McgrathPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, House Financial Services Committee17 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer ReadPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs13 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan D IsraelButera & Andrews10 filingsthrough 2011
James J ButeraButera & Andrews10 filingsthrough 2011
Abigail V TruhartPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLC9 filingsthrough 2026
Chris ManevalPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Republican Whip Emmer; Chief of Staff, Rep. Emmer; Legislative Director, Rep. Emmer; Senior Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Aide, Rep. Forbes; Staff Assistant, Rep. Forbes8 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen NewtonPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Romney; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kennedy; Research Assistant, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship5 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
