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.
David SchnittgerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-200533 filingsthrough 2026
David LesstrangSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.29 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey DenhamDentons US LLPCovered position: Former Member of Congress7 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: hexion-inc.
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.
TAR
7 filings
$370K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$190K 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.
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.
Seth WaughDentons US LLPCovered position: Workforce Policy Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Legislative Correspondent, United States Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)
7 filingsthrough 2026
Rory MurphySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: July-Dec 2007: S.A., Sen. Finance Com.; Feb. '09-Jan. '13: Intern'l Trade Analyst, Sen. Finance Com.; Jan. '13-Feb. '14: Intern'l Trade and Nominations Advisor, Sen. Finance Com.,;Feb. '14-May '15:Policy Analyst, Ex-Im Bank.7 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth CraddockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Cmte.; Legislative Director, Counsel, Sen. Mary Landrieu6 filingsthrough 2024
Ludmilla Kasulke (Nee Savelieff)Squire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2003- Intern Sen. DeWine; Jan. 06-May 06: Intern, WH Council on Environ. Quality; May 06-April 07: Ex. Assist., Chairman, WH Council on Environmental Quality; April 07-Jan. 09: Special Assist., Chairman, WH Council on Environmental Quality5 filingsthrough 2024
Alex ShumateSquire Patton Boggs5 filingsthrough 2022
LEM O. SMITH ivSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2004, Legislative Director, Rep Charlie Norwood; 1999-2001, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Roger Wicker; 1998-1999, Staff Assistant, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott5 filingsthrough 2019
Frank SamolisSquire Patton Boggs2 filingsthrough 2017
David StewartSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Nov '15-Apr '18, Maj. SD Ways and Means; June '13-Nov '15, Pol Dir, Speaker Boehner; Dec '08-Jan '11: Pol Adv, Rep Boehner; Jan '11-June '13, Asst for Policy, Rep Boehner; Apr '07-Dec '08 Dep COS and LD, Rep English1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
