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.
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: godaddy-inc.
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.
20 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
20 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
3 filings
$458K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$255K 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.
S. 1738110th CongressPROTECT Our Children Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1528112th CongressConsumer Privacy Protection Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 799112th CongressCommercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 913112th CongressDo-Not-Track Online Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 1625110th CongressCounter Spy Act1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Wesley McclellandFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - Rep. John Campbell; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Bill Thomas8 filingsthrough 2023
Jessica MartinezFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Legislative Director - Rep. Marc Veasey; Special Advisor/Confidential Assistant - FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel; Outreach and Member Services Coordinator - Rep. Frank Pallone6 filingsthrough 2023
Alex HarmanGodaddy Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Senator Mazie Hirono; Chief of Staff, Rep Steven Horsford; General Counsel, Senator Mark Udall; Counsel, Senator Evan Bayh; White House Liaison, Department of Homeland Security3 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin CumminsFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Sr. Professional Staff - Sen. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Tom Udall3 filingsthrough 2023
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrFranklin Square Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
