13 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2021 · latest filed Oct 20, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$690K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$380K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$310K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
H.R. 7616116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2020
Joel RobersonHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Committee Liaison, House Republican Conference; Floor Debate Coordinator, House Republican Conference; Law Clerk, House Judiciary Committee6 filingsthrough 2021
Leslie PollnerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney6 filingsthrough 2021
Michael FriedbergHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcommittee, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee6 filingsthrough 2021
Sean Peter Deverey
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: iris-automation-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
5 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$110K 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.
116th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
2 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Iris Automation Inc.
Covered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. House Small Business Committee; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dennis A. Cardoza; Legislative Director, Rep. Robert E. Andrews
6 filingsthrough 2021
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief of Staff, Rep. Patrick Kennedy; Dpty Staff Dir., Dem.Tech. and Comm. Committee; Policy Advisor, Rep. Dick Gephardt; Staff Assistant, Rep. Dick Gephardt;5 filingsthrough 2021
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Bell; Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean5 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lee Terry5 filingsthrough 2021
Emily KirlinTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services, Senator John Cornyn; Whip Liaison, Senator Jon Kyl; Internal Communications Advisor, Senator Lamar Alexander5 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew LeffingwellTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk5 filingsthrough 2021
