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: international-longshore-and-warehouse-union.
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.
TRA
36 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
33 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$2M on those filings
Retirement
RET
25 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
9 filings
$490K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$320K 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.
1 filing
through 2026
H.R. 8870119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act1 filingthrough 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.
7 filings
through 2026
William SamuelNvg, LLC7 filingsthrough 2026
Richard GephardtGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Member of Congress4 filingsthrough 2016
Kyle MulhallGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Gephardt; Senior Policy Advisor, House Democratic Leader; Senior Trial Attorney, Department of Transportation4 filingsthrough 2016
Scott BrennerGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of External Affairs, Science and Technology Directorate, DHS; Associate Administrator for External Affairs, NHTSA; Associate Administrator for Public Affairs, FAA; Director of Communications, House T&I Committee4 filingsthrough 2016
Andrea LarueNvg, LLCCovered position: Rules Committee Counsel, Senator Christopher Dodd; Counsel, Senator Thomas A. Daschle; Legislative Assistant & District Director, Congressman Michael A. Andrews3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
