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: lkq-corporation.
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.
CPT
32 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
23 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
19 filings
$870K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
9 filings
$420K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$480K 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
SMART Act of 2021
6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5638110th CongressTo amend title 35, United States Code, to create an exception from infringement for certain component parts used to repair another article of manufacture.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1885115th CongressAV START Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1409112th CongressQuality Health Care Coalition Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4715114th CongressRPM Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2659114th CongressRPM Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1416117th CongressPARTS Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
Timothy P HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc20 filingsthrough 2020
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & AssocCovered position: Minority Counsel, House Committee on Ways & Means [1995-1997]20 filingsthrough 2020
Thomas Paul LathamHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & AssocCovered position: Member of Congress, 1995 - 2015, R-Iowa17 filingsthrough 2020
Eileen A SottileLkq Corporation17 filingsthrough 2013
ROBERT HARMALA esqKilpatrick Townsend & StocktonCovered position: N/A10 filingsthrough 2010
Catherine BolandLkq CorporationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator George Voinovich; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim Inhofe9 filingsthrough 2026
William H HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc9 filingsthrough 2017
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, Telecommunications Subcommittee9 filingsthrough 2010
Robert Neal MartinMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Cleland8 filingsthrough 2026
Mark WilliamsFerox StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Conaway // Chief of Staff, Rep. Todd Rokita // Dep. Chief of Staff/Leg. Director, Rep. Sam Johnson.7 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas H QuinnVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
RAYMOND V SHEPHERD iiiVenable LLPCovered position: Staff Dir/Chf Counsel-Sen.Perm.Sub.Investigations6 filingsthrough 2009
JAMES H BURNLEY ivVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Rep. Wes Watkins6 filingsthrough 2009
Michael J FerrellVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Craig Patrick CarboneContinental Strategy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rick Scott5 filingsthrough 2026
Aleah ShurenFerox Strategies5 filingsthrough 2022
John C.F. LovingKilpatrick Townsend & StocktonCovered position: Legislative Asst. Senator Robert F. Bennett5 filingsthrough 2010
Tiffany M MooreVenable LLPCovered position: Asst. US Trade Rep., Leg. Director Rep. Upton5 filingsthrough 2009
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps4 filingsthrough 2026
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor4 filingsthrough 2026
Jose CeballosS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce4 filingsthrough 2026
Michael FerenceS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Adv, Maj. Leader Eric Cantor and Maj Whip Roy Blunt; Leg Asst, Senator Inhofe4 filingsthrough 2026
