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.
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.36 filingsthrough 2026
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner36 filingsthrough 2026
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council21 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 95 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: growth-energy.
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.
53 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
23 filings
$925K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
5 filings
$230K 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.
115th Congress
Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1148111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 943111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4940111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4512111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5142111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5343111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 864111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3338111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
Sean A. TaylorVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (2001-2002); Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Connie Mack (2000-2001).18 filingsthrough 2024
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (2005-2008); Senior Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Jim Davis (2001-2005)17 filingsthrough 2024
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry16 filingsthrough 2021
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2022
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies12 filingsthrough 2022
James M WickettHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: N/A11 filingsthrough 2025
Michael WeinerVan Ness Feldman, LLP8 filingsthrough 2022
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan8 filingsthrough 2018
Michael PlatnerVan Ness Feldman, LLP7 filingsthrough 2023
Joshua AndrewsFaegre Baker Daniels ConsultingCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (CA-14); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)7 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen BaileyInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Tax Csl, Cong Jnt Comm on Deficit Reduction; Sr Analyst, Revenue/Tax Csl, Sen. Budget Comm.; Leg Asst/ Tax Counsel, Sen. Kent Conrad7 filingsthrough 2018
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Policy Adv. to Chmn.,Energy&Commerce Comm.7 filingsthrough 2010
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Diane Black; Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee6 filingsthrough 2018
Tim ShadyacBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP5 filingsthrough 2026
Gwen Keyes FlemingVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, Immigration & Customs Enforcement: Principal Legal Advisor, 2015-2017; U.S. EPA: Chief of Staff to Administrator Gina McCarthy, 2013-2015; Regional Administrator, Region 4, 2010-20135 filingsthrough 2021
Tim UrbanBracewell LLP5 filingsthrough 2020
Darrin MunozFaegre Baker Daniels ConsultingCovered position: Correspondence Director/Legislative Aide, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT); Legislative Assistant/Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)5 filingsthrough 2018
Larissa MartinezInvariant LLCCovered position: Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Deb Fischer; Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Hagel; Legislative Correspondent, Representative Nathan Deal; Assistant Scheduler, Senator Johnny Isakson5 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern4 filingsthrough 2019
Scott DouglasBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP3 filingsthrough 2025
David ThompsonBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Staff, Office of Rep. J. Dennis Hastert; Staff, Office of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert3 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 28 of 39 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
