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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
22 filings
$660K 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.
S.J.Res. 15117th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency relating to "National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders".4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
JOHN THOMAS GRAVES jrErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress19 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew MarshErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A9 filingsthrough 2026
Amanda KasperErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), July 7, 2019 - January 13, 20218 filingsthrough 2023
Scott HommelErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC Dept. Of Interior: Chief of Staff - Secretary Zinke January 2017- January 2019; Senior Advisor to the Secretary - January - May 2019; Chief of Staff to Congressman Zinke Jan 2015-Jan 2017.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: first-financial-loan-company.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2026
James L ErvinErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2021
Colby MillerErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Defense & Foreign Policy Advisor, Sen Hutchinson (07-09); Military LA, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (05-07); Navy Congressional Liaison (03-05).; Defense & Foreign Policy Advisor, Sen Hutchinson (07-09); Military LA, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (05-07); Navy Congressional Liaison (03-05).5 filingsthrough 2021
John DonnellyErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: - Rep. Tom Graves: CoS (2015-21), Dpty CoS/Comm Dir. (2014-15), Comm Dir. (2012-14 and 2010-11). Sen. Scott Brown: Press Secy (2011-12). Rep. Dan Burton: Press Secy (2008-10); Special Asst. (2007-08)5 filingsthrough 2021
Joe KasperErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: US Dept. Homeland Security: Depty. Asst. Secy (2020), Office of the Secy of Defense: Special Asst (2017-2020); Rep. Duncan Hunter: Chief of Staff (2014-2017); LD/Communications Dir (2008-9); Communications Dir. (2004-2008); LA (2003-2004)5 filingsthrough 2021
Brian YatesErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2021
William RogersErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.