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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
24 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Darrel ThompsonThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Advisor to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Member Services to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt25 filingsthrough 2026
Saul HernandezThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant-Rep. Frank W. Ballance, Jr.; Special Assistant, Systems Admin., Legislative Correspondent, Deputy Press Secretary, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff and Acting Chief of Staff-Rep. G.K. Butterfield7 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: john-deere.
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.
ECN
4 filings
$65K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$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.
through 2025
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Steven PruittJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Staff Director, House Budget Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern Rep. Walter Jones (Summer 1995)4 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com. on Natural Resources (87-08)4 filingsthrough 2008
JC WATTS jrJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2008
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Alexandra SheppardAlexandra Sheppard3 filingsthrough 2016
Pamela ThiessenThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Legis. Dir., July 2009-Feb. 2011, Sen. Ensign; Sr. Policy Advisor, July 2009-Sept 2009., Joint Economic Committee; Staff Dir., Jan. 2009-July 2009, Sen. Republican Policy Committee; Legis. Dir., Feb. 2001-Jan.2009, Sen. Ensign.2 filingsthrough 2026
Bruce GatesErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
