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: jm-family-enterprises-inc.
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
103 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
39 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
18 filings
$790K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$350K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
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 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
Protecting American Consumers from Robocalls Act
13 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2563116th CongressILLICIT CASH Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1931117th CongressSurface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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 B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger
27 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle Brandon SandersThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Special Assistant for Economic Development/Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Thom Tillis; Legislative Counsel/Legislative Director & Counsel, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Aide, Rep. Andy Harris9 filingsthrough 2025
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senate (18yrs) US Representative (2yrs)6 filingsthrough 2009
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: Coast Guard Fellow, LA: Sen. Breaux4 filingsthrough 2009
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senate (19yrs), US Representative (1yr)3 filingsthrough 2009
