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.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
42 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1585116th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2022
Allison BinneyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Gen cnsl, Sen Comm on Indian Affairs, Jul 05-Dec 07; staffstaff dir and chf cnsl, Sen Comm on Indian Affairs,Dec 07-Mar 1145 filingsthrough 2022
Michael-Corey Francis HintonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2016
Denise DesiderioAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dep Staff Dir, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Feb 13-Jan 14; Snr Cnsl, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Jan 09-Feb 13; Cnslr, Office of Gen Cnsl for the Nat Indian Gaming Commission, Sep 05-Dec 09; Special Assist to the Assist Secretary for Ind Affairs, Jan 03-Sep 05
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: firekeepers-development-authority.
TAX
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
2 filings
$30K 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.
117th Congress
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act
2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2907117th CongressTruth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3043114th CongressTribal Tax Incentive for Renewable Energy Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
S. 1507114th CongressVisa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
9 filingsthrough 2021
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld8 filingsthrough 2021
Don PongraceAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld8 filingsthrough 2020
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm3 filingsthrough 2021
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 003 filingsthrough 2020
Katie Morgan BrossyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2015
Virgil MillerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Policy Fellow, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Aug06 - Feb07; Prof Staff Mber, Commit on Eng and Com, Feb 07 - Jan 11; Health Policy Advisor, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jan 09 - Jan 11; CoS, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Jan 11 - Mar 19.2 filingsthrough 2021
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern2 filingsthrough 2020
Caryn Dyson LesterAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff mbr to Sen Breaux, 2003-04; Intrn to Sen Mikulski, 1999.2 filingsthrough 2020
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-04.1 filingthrough 2019
David CarlinAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst sec for Cong rels, USDA, 1995-981 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 9 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
