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.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
25 filings
$4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4378116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2021
David SchnittgerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-200535 filingsthrough 2026
David StewartSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Nov '15-Apr '18, Maj. SD Ways and Means; June '13-Nov '15, Pol Dir, Speaker Boehner; Dec '08-Jan '11: Pol Adv, Rep Boehner; Jan '11-June '13, Asst for Policy, Rep Boehner; Apr '07-Dec '08 Dep COS and LD, Rep English32 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey L TurnerSquire Patton Boggs25 filingsthrough 2023
David LesstrangSquire Patton Boggs 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: government-of-u-s-virgin-islands.
ENG
12 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
8 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$740K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$680K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$350K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$270K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$220K 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.
117th Congress
Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act
H.R. 4667115th CongressMaking further supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, for disaster assistance for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and calendar year 2017 wildfires, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1652115th CongressOver-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
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:
24 filingsthrough 2026
Bill ShusterSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2019, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives22 filingsthrough 2026
Rebekah SungalaSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019: Leg. Assist., House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Sept. 2017-Jan. 2019: Scheduler/Executive Assistant; Congressman Bill Shuster; Nov. 2012-Aug. 2017: Sr. Field Rep., Congressman Bill Shuster22 filingsthrough 2026
JOHN J DESCHAUER jrSquire Patton Boggs11 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas S AndrewsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2009-2013:SA/LC and Sr SA, Rep. John Boehner; 2013-2015:SA to Speaker John Boehner; 2015-2018: Dir of Member Services, Speaker Paul Ryan; 2018- 2021: SA to President for Leg Affairs, White House5 filingsthrough 2023
John KingstonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1993-2015, Congressman-U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2025
Peter D RobertsonSquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2021
Michael D. HawthorneSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2022: Law Clerk Sen Judiciary; 2021: Law Clerk House Ways and Means; 2020: Law Clerk Sen Perm Subc on Investigations and US Office of Spec Counsel; 2018: Intern Off of the President; 2017 Intern Speaker Ryan and Whip Scalise; 2016 Intern Rep LoBiondo3 filingsthrough 2025
Caren StreetSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2007-08: SA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; 2008-17: LC/LA/Policy Adv/Grants Director/Counsel/Sr Policy Adv, Sen. Harry Reid; 2017-18: Policy Dir, CBC (Rep. Cedric Richmond); 2018-19, 2021: COS, Rep. Karen Bass; 2019-21: Exec Dir, CBC (Rep. Bass)2 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dec. 1990- Jan. 1991, Intern, Cong. Barbara Kennelly; Aug. 1992, Intern, Sen. Joseph Lieberman2 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
