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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
59 filings
$4M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
58 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 735 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1112116th CongressEnhanced Background Checks Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1114116th CongressTo require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on public health.16 filingsthrough 2020
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: giffords.
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.
HCR
50 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
32 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
23 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Veterans
VET
16 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
13 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
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
Firearm Safety Act of 2019
16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1116116th CongressKeeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1134116th CongressPrevent Crime and Terrorism Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1287116th CongressNo Guns for Abusers Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1296116th CongressAssault Weapons Ban of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1297116th CongressLaw Enforcement Protection Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
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.
24 filings
through 2021
David H ChipmanGiffords17 filingsthrough 2020
Rukmani Devi BhatiaGiffordsCovered position: Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia - U.S. Agency for International Development16 filingsthrough 2023
Miri CypersGiffordsCovered position: Office Manager - Rep. Steve IsraelLegislative Correspondent - Rep. Steve IsraelLegislative Correspondent/Legis. Aide - Rep. Steve Israel15 filingsthrough 2017
Tom SchnoorGiffords14 filingsthrough 2020
Kevin Joseph O'KeefeGiffordsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Office of Rep. Jahana Hayes; Staff Assistant - Office of Sen. Tammy Duckworth13 filingsthrough 2022
Alexandra KingGiffordsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein; Judiciary Aide to Sen. Feinstein, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary10 filingsthrough 2025
Robin LloydSunnyside Strategy9 filingsthrough 2026
Emma SilverGiffordsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Scheduler/Executive Assistant, and Legislative Aide; Rep. Brad Sherman6 filingsthrough 2026
Lindsey ParkerGiffords5 filingsthrough 2014
Lale MorrisonGiffordsCovered position: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (CoS), Rep. Stephanie Murphy (CoS, Senior Comms. and Policy Adviser), Rep. Charlie Crist (Senior Adviser), Rep. Alcee Hastings (CoS), House Rules Comm. (Rules Associate), Commission on Security and Cooperation (Comms. Director)4 filingsthrough 2026
Madelyn CobbGiffordsCovered position: Legislative Intern - Sherrod Brown (May 2019 - Aug. 2019)4 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
