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.
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: groundfish-forum.
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.
TAX
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$30K 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
Ethan's Law
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1129115th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 524119th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2518115th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2652111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
11 filings
through 2012
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC11 filingsthrough 2012
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate7 filingsthrough 2010
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance2 filingsthrough 2020
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Rachelle Ashley SlaterSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Asst., Representative Jennifer Dunn2 filingsthrough 2011
William MyhreK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2020
John HesseCero Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 6 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
