Ginkgo Bioworks — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ginkgo Bioworks
Massachusetts
48 filings from 4 registrants · 2019–2025 · latest filed Jun 18, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)17 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)17 filingsthrough 2024
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate15 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-Tate Deputy Floor Director, Speaker John Boehner (2010-2013); Floor Assistant, House Speaker John Boehner (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006 -2010); Staff Member, Rep. Pat Tiberi (2004-2006)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: ginkgo-bioworks.
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.
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
14 filings
$140K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
14 filings
$140K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
12 filings
$430K on those filings
Education
EDU
7 filings
$560K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$160K 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.
118th Congress
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act
3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4373116th CongressEngineering Biology Research and Development Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Covered position:
15 filingsthrough 2023
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Rob Kind (1999-2002)15 filingsthrough 2023
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)13 filingsthrough 2022
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)12 filingsthrough 2023
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate12 filingsthrough 2022
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)9 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)9 filingsthrough 2025
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)6 filingsthrough 2022
Porter DelaneyKyle House Group5 filingsthrough 2023
Michael MillerKyle House GroupCovered position: Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Secretary HHS; Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID; Director for African Affairs,NSC; Legislative Assistant, Senator Bill Frist5 filingsthrough 2023
David Forrest LasseterHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: Former Schedule C (DOD, DOJ), Former Congressional Aide (U.S. House, U.S. Senate)4 filingsthrough 2023
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012).2 filingsthrough 2023
Julie LasseterHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: -House and Senate Staffer -Special Assistant, Department of Defense1 filingthrough 2023
Stephen Elliott BoydHorizons Global Solutions LLCCovered position: -House and Senate Staffer -Assistant Attorney General1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 14 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
