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.
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee17 filingsthrough 2024
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: ​Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President17 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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-legal-finance-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.
TAX
13 filings
$565K on those filings
Banking
BAN
8 filings
$530K on those filings
Constitution
CON
7 filings
$110K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$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.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1109119th CongressLitigation Transparency Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7015119th CongressProtecting TPLF From Abuse Act3 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Represenative Robert Aderholt
17 filingsthrough 2024
Craig KalkutWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: ​Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief Staff, Senator Kent Conrad17 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan HilerMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of the Vice President, Mike Pence; Legislative Director, Senator Tom Cotton; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Cotton; Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Pence; Policy Advisor, Rep. Jeb Hensarling.12 filingsthrough 2024
Kristi RemingtonS-3 GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee9 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher BukiWest Front Strategies LLC9 filingsthrough 2024
Craig KalkutS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief Staff, Senator Kent Conrad7 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas BinionOnmessage Public StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide: Rep. Steve King6 filingsthrough 2026
Pete KirkhamRed Maple Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) and LD for Reps. Bateman (R-VA), Gerlach (R-PA), Graves (R-MO) and Watkins (R-OK)4 filingsthrough 2025
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster3 filingsthrough 2025
Timothy Lloyd HanfordRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means3 filingsthrough 2025
Milan DalalTiger Hill Partners LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on Securities, Insurance, and Investments; Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on National Security, International Trade, and Finance; Senior Economic Advisor, Sen. Mark Warner; Legislative Dir, Rep. Gregory Meeks3 filingsthrough 2025
Frederick VaughanCheckmate Government RelationsCovered position: Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Cmte.; Associate Director, The White House; Confidential Asst., Office of Management & Budget; Writer, The White House3 filingsthrough 2025
Charles McdowellCheckmate Government Relations3 filingsthrough 2025
