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: futures-industry-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.
BAN
33 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
10 filings
$370K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$990K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
3 filings
$20K 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.
S. 4760118th CongressRestoring Civility on Campus Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4659115th CongressTo require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to recognize the exposure-reducing nature of client margin for cleared derivatives.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4337117th CongressCommodity Futures Trading Commission Research and Development Modernization Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4760117th CongressDigital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4234116th CongressTo amend the Commodity Exchange Act with respect to the regulation of virtual currencies.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1317114th CongressTo amend the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to specify how clearing requirements apply to certain affiliate transactions, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 876114th CongressA bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to specify how clearing requirements apply to certain affiliate transactions.4 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus23 filingsthrough 2017
Todd NovasconeOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Jerry Moran; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jerry Moran21 filingsthrough 2024
Tucker ShumackOgrCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Small Business Committee/ Sen. Olympia Snowe; Legislative Asst, Sen. Johnny Isakson/ Rep. Isakson; Legislative Asst, Sen. Paul Coverdell20 filingsthrough 2026
Stanton BullockOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Daniel Moynihan12 filingsthrough 2020
Dean AguillenOgrCovered position: Advr, Pelosi; Dir Intgvt Aff, Labor; LA, Sandlin9 filingsthrough 2015
Mark D YoungKirkland & Ellis LLP8 filingsthrough 2010
Jamie WallAvoq, LLCCovered position: LA - Sen. Roy Blunt, LA - Sen. Kit Bond, LC - Sen. Kit Bond, Staff Asst. - Sen. Kit Bond, Constituent Svcs Caseworker - Gov. Matt Blunt7 filingsthrough 2018
Michael R McleodWatkinson Miller PLLC7 filingsthrough 2013
WILLIAM EDGAR O'CONNER jrWatkinson Miller PLLCCovered position: Ch of Staff (USDA); Ch of Staff (House Ag Cmte)7 filingsthrough 2013
Dawn StumpStump Strategic LLCCovered position: Professional Legislative Staff - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture; Legislative Assistant - Office of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm6 filingsthrough 2017
Robert R GreenWatkinson Miller PLLCCovered position: Ch of Staff (Sen Ag Cmte); Deputy Undersec Ag6 filingsthrough 2012
Darin GuriesFutures Industry AssociationCovered position: Sr. Professional Staff, Sen Agriculture, Nutrition, Forestry Ctte; Deputy Legislative Dir, Legislative Asst, Sen Pat Roberts; General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Leg Correspondent, Sen Sam Brownback4 filingsthrough 2026
John FreshmanTroutman Strategies4 filingsthrough 2009
Patrick AndersonTroutman StrategiesCovered position: LA Rep. Henry Bonilla, Staff Asst. Sen Cmte on Bn4 filingsthrough 2009
Benjamin Craig NobleTroutman StrategiesCovered position: LA, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, LA Sen. Dale Bumpers4 filingsthrough 2009
ROBERT LEEBERN jrTroutman StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Rep. Saxby Chambliss4 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 24 of 36 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
