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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
19 filings
$390K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Eric LaustenHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Congressman Lipinski, Chief of Staff, Congressman Acevedo-Villa, Chief of Staff, Congressman McKinney, Legislative Director13 filingsthrough 2026
John Theodore AssiniHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Senator Baldwin, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Panetta, Legislative Assistant, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, Majority Staff13 filingsthrough 2026
Mark RugeK&L Gates, LLP5 filingsthrough 2022
William FoxHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies) House Transportation Committee, Legislative Assistant
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: great-lakes-dredge-dock-company-llc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2024
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
Lynnette R JacquezCj Lake, LLC4 filingsthrough 2022
Kevin ForgettHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)2 filingsthrough 2023
John AssiniCj Lake, LLC2 filingsthrough 2022
Kevin P ForgettCj Lake, LLC2 filingsthrough 2022
Nadiah A CooperCj Lake, LLC2 filingsthrough 2022
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
