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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Bob GoodR-Virginia-AL
Bills: H.J.Res. 116, H.J.Res. 98, H.R. 1425 +2 more
38 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Michael LaymanInternational Franchise AssociationCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Cmte on Government Reform; Leg. Director, Rep. Tim Murphy55 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew HallerInternational Franchise Association54 filingsthrough 2026
Geoffrey P GrayGeoffrey P. GrayCovered position: Sr. Prof. Staff, US Senate Banking Committee42 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 308 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: international-franchise-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.
SMB
101 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
77 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
56 filings
$7.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
44 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
32 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
29 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
28 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
25 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
18 filings
$4M on those filings
Torts
TOR
18 filings
$3.4M 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.
113th Congress
Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 2013
14 filingsthrough 2014
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 202113 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2826118th CongressSave Local Business Act12 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1261118th CongressSave Local Business Act12 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3459114th CongressProtecting Local Business Opportunity Act12 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Charles L MerinPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A
41 filingsthrough 2018
Mark DislerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A31 filingsthrough 2018
Keith SmithPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A30 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey ZiarkoEconomic Policy StrategiesCovered position: Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Rep. Sandy Levin and House Ways & Means Committee23 filingsthrough 2025
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-'12.22 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen AaronMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Senate Environment & Publics Works Committee (2004-2007);22 filingsthrough 2022
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Dir/Gen Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthyDeputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IPStaff Director, House Judiciary Committee13 filingsthrough 2017
Jay B PerronInternational Franchise Association13 filingsthrough 2014
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt (R-MO); Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)11 filingsthrough 2023
Jason StraczewskiInternational Franchise Association11 filingsthrough 2011
Victoria Jane AdamsInternational Franchise Association11 filingsthrough 2011
Elizabeth TaylorInternational Franchise AssociationCovered position: Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Fred Thompson; Exec. Asst., Sen. Cmte on Investigations; Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmte; Chief Counsel for Nominations, Sen. Judiciary Cmte; Gen. Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmte; Chief Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmte.10 filingsthrough 2016
Mark William RodgersValente & AssociatesCovered position: Deputy Dir., Cong. Rel.; Policy Dir., OPM10 filingsthrough 2014
Michael Dennis BellValente & AssociatesCovered position: Majority Staff, House Committee on Science10 filingsthrough 2014
Jarrod LoadholtIce Miller LLPCovered position: Sr. Counsel to House Committee on Financial Services; Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit; Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation9 filingsthrough 2025
Michael J. HeatonIce Miller LLPCovered position: Former Legislative Director for Congressman Mike Turner (R-Ohio)9 filingsthrough 2025
Michael StroudIce Miller LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief Counsel House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Assistant Secretary Private Sector Office (Acting), U.S. Department of Homeland Security9 filingsthrough 2025
Meagan Bolton SunnIce Miller LLPCovered position: Office of U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Legislative Counsel and U.S. House Committee on Small Business, Counsel, and various roles at FCC9 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 64 of 103 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
