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.
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sr. Staff Assistant, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Assistant, Rep. C.W. Bill Young.23 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 86 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: hcbs-advocacy-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.
TAX
20 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN
10 filings
$980K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$700K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$460K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$160K 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.
119th Congress
Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1515119th CongressAffordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8774118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Daniel R MurphyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HUD Secretary; Personal Aide Vice President Quayle; Field Rep. Sen. Quayle; Intern Rep. Hiler; Intern, Sen. Quayle18 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan MantzBgr Government AffairsCovered position: N/A18 filingsthrough 2024
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep COS Sen. Wicker; COS Rep. Palazzo; Leg Asst Sen Wicker; Intern Sen. Cochran18 filingsthrough 2024
Pete LandrumBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Defense Policy Advisor Sen. Session18 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt18 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency18 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan HilerMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of the Vice President, Mike Pence; Legislative Director, Senator Tom Cotton; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Cotton; Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Pence; Policy Advisor, Rep. Jeb Hensarling.17 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica Anne MandelMiller Strategies, LLC14 filingsthrough 2026
Joel D. BaileyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS Rep. Panetta; LD Rep. Ashford; LD Rep. Matheson; Sr. LA Rep. Matsui; LA, Sr. LA Rep. Baron Hill; Intern Rep. Rahall12 filingsthrough 2024
Dana GreshamMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Doug Jones10 filingsthrough 2024
Rick DearbornMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, President Donald Trump10 filingsthrough 2023
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh9 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley GunnMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Special Asst to the President, Senior Director, White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.9 filingsthrough 2026
Hamilton BloomVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Minority Staff Director/Clerk, Majority Staff Director/Clerk, Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, & Related Agencies; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby9 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen RuppelMiller Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2026
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel - Senate Small Business Committee (Sen. John Kerry)8 filingsthrough 2026
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Hakeem Jeffries; Director - WH Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (Dept. of Commerce); Leadership Liaison/Policy Adviser - House Ways and Means Cmte (Rep. Charlie Rangel); Senior Adviser - Rep. Charlie Rangel8 filingsthrough 2026
Marc J GersonMiller & Chevalier, ChtdCovered position: House Ways and Means Committee Majority Tax Counsel7 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLC7 filingsthrough 2026
Scott ShewcraftMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Foster7 filingsthrough 2024
Anna YankerMindset Advocacy, LLC6 filingsthrough 2020
Cachavious EnglishBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing5 filingsthrough 2022
