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.
David Patrick RobertsonConfluence Government RelationsCovered position: Deputy to the Chief of Staff, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Leg. Aide & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Rockefeller15 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew TanielianFranklin Square Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2025
Joshua AckilFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Associate Director - Sen. Democratic Conference Committee (Sen. Tom Daschle)9 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Beth JansenFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Cmte (Sen. Tom Coburn); General Counsel, Counsel, Judiciary Rep. -Sen. Judiciary Cmte/Privacy Tech & Law Subcmte (Sen. Tom Coburn), Intern -Sen. Jeff Sessions; Intern -House Judiciary Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: linde-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.
CHM
5 filings
$270K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
5 filings
$270K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$270K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
2 filings
$120K 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.
117th Congress
Clean Hydrogen Production and Investment Tax Credit Act of 2021
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1807117th CongressClean H2 Production Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2118117th CongressClean Energy for America Act4 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.
9 filingsthrough 2025
Wesley McclellandFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Senior Policy Advisor - Rep. John Campbell; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Bill Thomas9 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin CumminsFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Sr. Professional Staff - Sen. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Tom Udall9 filingsthrough 2025
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrFranklin Square Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2025
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrCapitol Chambers StrategiesCovered position: Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Gary A. Franks; Staff Assistant, House Republican Leader Robert H. Michel7 filingsthrough 2023
John SteitzRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior LA, Sen. John Kennedy; Senior PSM and PSM, Sen. Small Business Committee; LA and LC, Sen. David Vitter.6 filingsthrough 2026
Russ KelleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader; Dir of Radio, Democrat Comms Committee; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee.6 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan ZumwaltRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 15 Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources.6 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle CormneyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Tom Price; LD, Tom Price; Senior Policy Advisor, House Budget Committee.6 filingsthrough 2026
Ian Thomas Alexander WhitsonRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. David Rouzer; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. David Rouzer; Staff Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer.6 filingsthrough 2026
Antonia O'MalleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLC4 filingsthrough 2025
Josh HodgesRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: NatSec Adv, Speaker Johnson; Sr PSM, House Judiciary Cmte; SAP/Sr Dir NSC; Sr Dep Asst Admin, USAID; Dir Cong Aff, NNSA; Sr LA, DOE; LD, Rep. Mike Johnson; MLA, Sen. Vitter1 filingthrough 2026
Luc ChavezRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Sen. Lujan1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
