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.
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
16 filings
$830K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$730K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffery WalterCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Projects Director for Senator Alfonso D'amato; Special Projects
Director for Senator Connie Mack; Deputy Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee.9 filingsthrough 2018
Clinton RobinsonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Administrator, General Service Administration; and Legislative
Director, Rep. John Linder.9 filingsthrough 2018
Gregg HartleyCloakroom Advisors LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Roy Blunt
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: gephardt-government-affairs-on-behalf-of-bayer-ag.
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.
LBR
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$310K 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.
115th Congress
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
1 filingthrough 2018
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.
8 filingsthrough 2017
William FoxCloakroom Advisors LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant House Transportation Committee8 filingsthrough 2017
William FoxHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Legislative Assistant House Transportation Committee4 filingsthrough 2018
Gregg HartleyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Chief of Staff Rep. Roy Blunt4 filingsthrough 2018
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan.3 filingsthrough 2018
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
