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: hearing-industries-association.
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
49 filings
$930K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
17 filings
$698K on those filings
Veterans
VET
10 filings
$388K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$20K 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.
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act4 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.
19 filingsthrough 2021
Robert DaleyPolsinelli PCCovered position: LA, Sen. John Barrasso18 filingsthrough 2021
Bobby CunninghamThe Vogel Group13 filingsthrough 2025
Mark RayderAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: LA, Rep. Tom Latham; LA, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen; District Rep., Rep. Dean Gallo13 filingsthrough 2016
ALEXANDER NICHOLAS VOGEL srThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist12 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew B. KeelenThe Vogel Group11 filingsthrough 2025
Robert Irvine Van HeuvelenThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Sen. Kent Conrad10 filingsthrough 2024
Cathy AbernathyAbernathy Consultants, CathyCovered position: Chief of Staff - Congressman Bill Thomas10 filingsthrough 2010
Bradley Neal HowardThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Rep. Stephanie Murphy9 filingsthrough 2024
Steven StrannePolsinelli PC9 filingsthrough 2021
Colin RoskeyAlston & Bird LLP7 filingsthrough 2016
Regina Maria SherickAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Finance Committee6 filingsthrough 2011
Stephanie A KennanAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Sr. Health Pol. Adv'r, Sen. R. Wyden6 filingsthrough 2011
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation6 filingsthrough 2011
Chris JonesBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2001-2009; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. David McIntosh, 1995-2001; Communications Director, House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee, 1996-2001; Press Secretary, Rep. John Myers, 1994-1995.5 filingsthrough 2026
Adam HigginsBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2007-2008.5 filingsthrough 2026
Peter RoskamBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Member of Congress, 2007-2019.5 filingsthrough 2026
