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.
Education
EDU
44 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$950K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Leslie BelcherSteptoe LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff; Reps. Tom Cole (OK-4) and Wes Watkins (OK-4)40 filingsthrough 2026
Rowan BostSteptoe LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Intern, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Senate Page, Senator Olympia Snowe8 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep/ Inglis, ; ; 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich, 1996; leg aide ; ; to Sen Coverdell, 1993-948 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher Caron
The filings
The 20 most recent of 98 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: george-kaiser-family-foundation.
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.
TAX
22 filings
$510K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$180K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Defense
DEF
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$155K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$125K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$10K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$55K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$55K 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.
Steptoe LLP
Covered position: LD, Sr. Policy Advisor, Dep COS; Rep. Tom Cole
7 filingsthrough 2021
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe6 filingsthrough 2014
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld6 filingsthrough 2014
Stuart Harris MccalmanCapitol Ventures Government Relations, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, Staff Asst. (1996)3 filingsthrough 2010
David CarlinAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst sec for Cong rels, USDA, 1995-982 filingsthrough 2010
Krisann PearceAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff, Jul 98-Oct 01 then dep dir of ed & HR pol, ; ; Oct 01-Apr 05, H Comm on Ed & Workforce2 filingsthrough 2009
