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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN
63 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1217113th CongressHousing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173113th CongressBrownfield Redevelopment and Economic Development Innovative Financing Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
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: jefferies-company-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Prevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4713111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
45 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin TurnerPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. John Delaney; Legislative Assistant/Legal Counsel, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Aide, Rep. Joe Courtney34 filingsthrough 2022
Kirsten T Johnson-ObeyPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Bruce Vento15 filingsthrough 2013
Jennifer ReadPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs13 filingsthrough 2024
Abigail V TruhartPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLC9 filingsthrough 2026
Chris ManevalPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Republican Whip Emmer; Chief of Staff, Rep. Emmer; Legislative Director, Rep. Emmer; Senior Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Aide, Rep. Forbes; Staff Assistant, Rep. Forbes8 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen NewtonPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Romney; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kennedy; Research Assistant, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship5 filingsthrough 2024
Brendon WeissPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Paul Ryan ; ; Legislative Analyst, Securities & Exchange Commission5 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
