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.
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)29 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002)29 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Rob Kind (1999-2002)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 199 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: live-nation-entertainment-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.
TRA
52 filings
$10.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
43 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
39 filings
$9.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
35 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
12 filings
$680K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
6 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$930K 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.
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2669111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4795111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
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.
29 filings
through 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate28 filingsthrough 2026
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)26 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon24 filingsthrough 2025
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen24 filingsthrough 2025
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate23 filingsthrough 2026
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB19 filingsthrough 2024
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman19 filingsthrough 2024
J Daniel WalshGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jack Buechner19 filingsthrough 2015
Jonathan LamyLive Nation Entertainment, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)15 filingsthrough 2025
Michael E WilliamsGreenberg Traurig, LLP12 filingsthrough 2013
Mark L. PryorBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: United States Senator11 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew UsykBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Robert Casey; Legislative Aide Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Compliance Officer, Sen. Gillibrand; Intern, Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. John Dingell11 filingsthrough 2025
John BuscherForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2022
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)11 filingsthrough 2022
Warren PayneMayer Brown LLPCovered position: U.S. Intl Comm: Trade Analyst, 2002-04; Economic Advisor, 2004-07;
House Ways and Means Committee: Trade Economist, 2007-09; Sr.
Economist/Trade Advisor, 2009-11; Chief Economist, 2011-13; Policy
Director, 2012-1511 filingsthrough 2021
Kichelle WebsterStewart Strategies and Solutions, LLC10 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 41 of 59 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
