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: humane-society-legislative-fund.
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.
15 filings
$310K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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.
115th Congress
PAST Act
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1258114th CongressPet and Women Safety Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1456115th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Lauren O'Brien
Republic Consulting, LLC
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis;Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis;Staff Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis;Intern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
5 filingsthrough 2016
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell;Legal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell;Chief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee5 filingsthrough 2016
Frank MccarthyThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director - Representative Sue Kelly4 filingsthrough 2015
Geoff DavisRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: U.S. Representative2 filingsthrough 2016
Chase Watson HienemanRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
