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: friends-committee-on-national-legislation.
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.
73 filings
$53.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
67 filings
$50M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
62 filings
$44.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
59 filings
$46.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
58 filings
$46.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
57 filings
$45.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
48 filings
$40.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
21 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
20 filings
$18M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
19 filings
$12.7M 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.
116th Congress
NO BAN Act
20 filingsthrough 2020
S. 874116th CongressDream Act of 201920 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2415116th CongressDignity for Detained Immigrants Act of 201919 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1243116th CongressDignity for Detained Immigrants Act of 201919 filingsthrough 2020
S. 879116th CongressSECURE Act19 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 256117th CongressTo repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.18 filingsthrough 2022
S.J.Res. 10117th CongressA joint resolution to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq, and for other purposes.18 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2456116th CongressTo repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.18 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 255117th CongressRepeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force17 filingsthrough 2022
S.J.Res. 12116th CongressAFGHAN Service Act17 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1088116th CongressGRACE Act16 filingsthrough 2020
H.J.Res. 29117th CongressWar Powers Amendments of 202115 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.
49 filings
through 2026
Hassan El-TayyabFriends Committee on National Legislation47 filingsthrough 2026
Ursala Knudsen-LattaFriends Committee on National Legislation47 filingsthrough 2026
Kate Eleanor GouldFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A44 filingsthrough 2019
David CulpFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A41 filingsthrough 2017
Diane RandallFriends Committee on National Legislation38 filingsthrough 2021
Ruth FlowerFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A37 filingsthrough 2016
Bridget MoixFriends Committee on National Legislation35 filingsthrough 2026
Diana OhlbaumFriends Committee on National Legislation34 filingsthrough 2023
Emily WirzbaFriends Committee on National Legislation34 filingsthrough 2020
Allen HesterFriends Committee on National Legislation31 filingsthrough 2026
Shukria DellawarFriends Committee on National Legislation31 filingsthrough 2022
Hannah EvansFriends Committee on National Legislation28 filingsthrough 2020
Anika ForrestFriends Committee on National Legislation25 filingsthrough 2026
Andre GobboFriends Committee on National Legislation23 filingsthrough 2021
Theodore SittherFriends Committee on National Legislation22 filingsthrough 2019
Jose AgutoFriends Committee on National Legislation22 filingsthrough 2017
Clarence Daryl EdwardsFriends Committee on National Legislation20 filingsthrough 2023
Anthony WierFriends Committee on National Legislation20 filingsthrough 2020
Allyson NevilleFriends Committee on National Legislation20 filingsthrough 2018
Joe VolkFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A18 filingsthrough 2010
Odeliya MatterFriends Committee on National Legislation17 filingsthrough 2026
Kerri ColferFriends Committee on National Legislation16 filingsthrough 2021
Julia GledhillFriends Committee on National Legislation16 filingsthrough 2021
Jim FineFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A16 filingsthrough 2010
Daren CaughronFriends Committee on National Legislation15 filingsthrough 2026
Devin HelfrichFriends Committee on National LegislationCovered position: N/A15 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 22 of 168 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
