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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$778K on those filings
Defense
DEF
19 filings
$468K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7321110th CongressAuto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Erica Clayton WrightKennametal Inc.Covered position: Communications Director U.S. Senator Rick Santorum17 filingsthrough 2014
Aaron Louis GrauGsp Consulting CorpCovered position: Majority Counsel12 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew Engel ForbesCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Senior LA Rep Keller & LSA T&I Committee (Aviation); Legis. Director, Sen James M Inhofe; Intern, Sen Richard Lugar11 filingsthrough 2026
Charles SydnorCassidy & Associates, Inc. Rep. Wilson- legislative assistant/counsel; Senator Boozman- legislative assistant/counsel; Senator Burr- legislative assistant/counsel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 61 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: kennametal-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.
LBR
11 filings
$100K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
9 filings
$18K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$200K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$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.
Covered position:
11 filingsthrough 2026
Peter StahleyCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee11 filingsthrough 2026
