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.
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy69 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader66 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ThompsonThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.Covered position: Rp. Fossella; Leg. Corresp. Sen. Brownback
The filings
The 20 most recent of 326 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: goldman-sachs-group-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.
TRD
65 filings
$51.5M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
63 filings
$54.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN
61 filings
$46M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
35 filings
$23.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
13 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
7 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Housing
HOU
5 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$280K 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.
through 2020
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 2018.12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 200812 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4413113th CongressCustomer Protection and End User Relief Act10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20088 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20088 filingsthrough 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.
Matt NiemeyerThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.Covered position: Trade Rep.; Asst. US Trade Rep.28 filingsthrough 2017
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/27 filingsthrough 2026
Janice O'ConnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate For Rel and Banking Comms25 filingsthrough 2016
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: JCT Deputy Chief of Staff; Sen. Finance Comm. Deputy Staff Dir. (Rep); Sen. Finance Comm.Tax Counsel (Rep).24 filingsthrough 2019
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (18 yrs), US Representative (2 yrs)24 filingsthrough 2016
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (19 yrs), US Representative (1 yr)24 filingsthrough 2016
Robert O'ConnorThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.22 filingsthrough 2018
