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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
38 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
38 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 715118th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8117th CongressBipartisan Background Checks Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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.21 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: giffords-formerly-reporting-as-americans-for-responsible-solutions.
BUD
37 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$200K 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.
119th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
H.J.Res. 40115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
Genevieve M BeltroneCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Jon Tester; Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Tester; Staff Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester.9 filingsthrough 2026
Adam Leonard CarassoCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Senior Tax and Economic Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; Chief Economist, House Budget Committee.5 filingsthrough 2026
Karen StoneCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Office of former Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) [Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, 2005; Senior Legislative Assistant, 2005-2009] Office of Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) [Legislative Director, 2009-2010].3 filingsthrough 2026
