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.
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader
The filings
The 20 most recent of 147 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: guardian-life-insurance-company-of-america.
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.
HCR
83 filings
$28.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
49 filings
$21.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
46 filings
$23.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
41 filings
$16.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$12M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
16 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN
10 filings
$410K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Welfare
WEL
2 filings
$1.2M 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
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4872113th CongressEnding Special Mail Privileges for Congress Act of 201410 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 460116th CongressEmployer Participation in Repayment Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3590112th CongressIndonesian Family Refugee Protection Act9 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4872112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain non-toric shaped polarized materials of 80 mm or less in diameter.9 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1671118th CongressIncreasing Access to Dental Insurance Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3590118th CongressProtect Our Judiciary Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4872118th CongressSecuring Our Borders and Wilderness Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3590117th CongressLocal Control and Community Preservation Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4872117th CongressZero-Emission Homes Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1043116th CongressEmployer Participation in Repayment Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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.
43 filings
through 2026
Laura Donovan HainesGuardian Life Insurance Company of America38 filingsthrough 2026
Whitaker L AskewAvoq, LLC38 filingsthrough 2026
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip29 filingsthrough 2022
David F GencarelliMr. David Gencarelli25 filingsthrough 2016
Tealanie BaldwinGuardian Life Insurance Company of America17 filingsthrough 2023
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/17 filingsthrough 2023
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee17 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance; Leg Asst., Senator Baucus17 filingsthrough 2020
Lisa StrikowskyGuardian Life Insurance Company of America17 filingsthrough 2017
Michael LewanThe Michael Lewan CompanyCovered position: Senior Advisor, Senator Joe Lieberman (2012)17 filingsthrough 2016
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.15 filingsthrough 2022
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Counsel, Counsel, and Legislative Director, Sen. Sarbanes15 filingsthrough 2019
Rachel GoldbergGuardian Life Insurance Company of AmericaCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Duffy (R-WI); Professional Staff House Financial Services Committee15 filingsthrough 2019
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Director, House Wednesday Group; Senior Advisor to Minority Whip and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich12 filingsthrough 2020
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries11 filingsthrough 2021
ROBERT M. PRESUTTI iiiGuardian Life Insurance Company of AmericaCovered position: Committee (2010); LC, Sen. Brown (2013)11 filingsthrough 2016
David Lee WernerMr. David Gencarelli9 filingsthrough 2010
Jamie WallAvoq, LLCCovered position: LA - Sen. Roy Blunt, LA - Sen. Kit Bond, LC - Sen. Kit Bond, Staff Asst. - Sen. Kit Bond, Constituent Svcs Caseworker - Gov. Matt Blunt7 filingsthrough 2018
Michael LewanBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: CoS, Rep Solarz(88); CoS, Sen Lieberman(89-93)5 filingsthrough 2012
Robert CogornoAvoq, LLC4 filingsthrough 2017
Jay RosenblumGuardian Life Insurance Company of America4 filingsthrough 2016
Anne FabryBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: Rec, ASch, LC, SA to CoS, Sen Lieberman(89-92)4 filingsthrough 2012
Marlene EnglishBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: SA, Rep. Lightfoot(94); SA, T&I(95-96)4 filingsthrough 2012
Chris Brent StrombergGuardian Life Insurance Company of America3 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 23 of 32 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
