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.
Tony EssalihCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson), LA House Member Office (Archer), SA House Member Office (Hastings), Intern House Member Office (Bliley)32 filingsthrough 2026
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)32 filingsthrough 2026
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)31 filingsthrough 2026
ALBERTO P CARDENAS jr
The filings
The 20 most recent of 79 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: greater-houston-partnership.
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.
33 filings
$940K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
31 filings
$660K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
31 filings
$660K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
8 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$130K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$120K 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.
MAP-21
1 filingthrough 2012
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.
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Covered position: General Counsel to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
15 filingsthrough 2013
Shane DoucetLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLCCovered position: Cong. Liaison, USDA; Leg. Asst, Rep. Bill Barrett14 filingsthrough 2012
Phillip RiversLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLC14 filingsthrough 2012
Mark A SiegelLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLC14 filingsthrough 2012
Denise HannaLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLC10 filingsthrough 2012
Bill ArcherPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee8 filingsthrough 2015
Donald G CarlsonPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Archer8 filingsthrough 2015
WALTER BYRON SMITH jrLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLCCovered position: Approps Asst, Rep. Henry Bonilla;7 filingsthrough 2012
Brian HeindlLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLCCovered position: Staff asst, LC,LA, Approps Dir. , Sen. Kohl6 filingsthrough 2011
Scott MccandlessPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Tax counsel, Rep. Tim Griffin5 filingsthrough 2015
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Cong. Black CaucusCoS/Deputy Asst. Secy, DOL/Empl't Stds. Adm.Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of LaborIntern, Rep. Michael N. Castle5 filingsthrough 2012
Roy CoffeeLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
David DavisMeyers and Associates4 filingsthrough 2015
David DistefanoLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLC4 filingsthrough 2008
Larry D MeyersMeyers and Associates2 filingsthrough 2015
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln ChafeeLeg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell2 filingsthrough 2012
Langston EmersonLocke Lord Public Policy Group LLCCovered position: Senior LA, Rep. Capuano; LA, Rep. Kilpatrick1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 13 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
