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: hsbc-technology-services-usa-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.
TAX
35 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
19 filings
$570K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
17 filings
$650K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$30K 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. 777116th CongressDebbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2293116th CongressExport-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4117116th CongressPaycheck Protection Small Business Forgiveness Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20192 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Deputy Majority Whip 04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-03.
17 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02.17 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'12.17 filingsthrough 2026
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee14 filingsthrough 2026
Charlie SchreiberMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Law clerk, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee14 filingsthrough 2026
Scott ShewcraftMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Foster14 filingsthrough 2026
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon14 filingsthrough 2021
James E SmithThe Smith-Free Group, LLC11 filingsthrough 2012
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC10 filingsthrough 2020
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)9 filingsthrough 2023
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)9 filingsthrough 2023
Charles CarithersCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff, House Homeland (Thompson); Brookings Legis Fellow, Senate Homeland (Carper)9 filingsthrough 2023
Chris ScribnerThe Smith-Free Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2021
Parker H. PolingHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Spec. Asst to Dir. of Media Affairs 01-03; Comm. on Educ. and Workforce, Chairman Boehner 03-04; Law Clerk to Chairman Toner, FEC 05-06; COS, Cong. McHenry 07-14; COS, Chief Dep. Whip McHenry 14-18 in Office of Maj. Whip Scalise.3 filingsthrough 2023
CLEMENT ABONYI jrMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Maxine Waters; Special Assistant, Legislative Affairs, US Treasury; Member Services Director, Member Services Coordinator, Staff Assistant, House Financial Services Committee2 filingsthrough 2026
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 21 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
