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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
8 filings
$910K 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Clinton RobinsonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Administrator, General Services Administration; and Legislative Director, Rep. John Linder.9 filingsthrough 2026
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.9 filingsthrough 2026
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.9 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey Carroll
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: government-of-ontario-ministry-of-intergovernmental-affairs.
Capitol Counsel LLC
Covered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone.
9 filingsthrough 2026
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.9 filingsthrough 2026
Jason ScismCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Counsel, Oversight Committee; Counsel & Legislative Director, Rep. Darrell Issa; Special Assistant, FCC; Staff Assistant & Clerk, House E&C Cmte.; Special Project Coordinator & Legislative Asst., Rep John Mica.9 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan KottCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor & Communications Dir., Sen. Joe Manchin; Sr. Advisor & Communications Dir., Sen. Chris Coons; Press Sec., Rep. Brad Ellsworth; Press Sec., Rep. Anthony Weiner; Speechwriter, Sen. Evan Bayh; Public Affrs. Spec., Ofc. of the Director, OPM.7 filingsthrough 2025
Jacob HartleyCapitol Counsel LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
George SifakisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of the Office of Public Liaison (President Trump, 2017).4 filingsthrough 2026
Nick BouknightCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Chief of Staff/ Communications Dir., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Bill Thomas; Deputy Press Sec., Ways and Means Cmte.; Press Asst., Ways and Means Cmte.3 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
