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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
53 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$400K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John LundyCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: COS to Sen. Trent Lott; LA to Rep. Larry Combest; LA to Rep. Mike Espy36 filingsthrough 2019
Susan ButlerCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: COS to Rep. Chip Pickering; LA to Sen. Trent Lott36 filingsthrough 2019
Spence FlatgardCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: LD & House Appropriations Committee Staff to Sen. Roger Wicker24 filingsthrough 2017
James BarnetteSteptoe LLP General Counsel, House Energy & Commerce
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 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: incompas.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position:
16 filingsthrough 2019
Henry BarbourCapitol Resources, LLC14 filingsthrough 2019
Chip PickeringCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: Staffer to Senator Trent Lott9 filingsthrough 2013
JAMES ARDEN BARNETT jrVenable LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee6 filingsthrough 2026
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation6 filingsthrough 2026
Caroline OlsenVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Member Services, House Republican Conference; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Communications Director, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Secretary, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Assistant, Rep. Pete Sessions; Comms Director, House Rules Committee6 filingsthrough 2026
John ShadeggSteptoe LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives6 filingsthrough 2015
Markham EricksonSteptoe LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
THOMAS J BLILEY jrSteptoe LLPCovered position: Chairman, House Energy & Commerce1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
