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: lowes-companies-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
71 filings
$19.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
54 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
49 filings
$15.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
47 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
41 filings
$7.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$12.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
36 filings
$10.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
34 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
29 filings
$3M 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.
115th Congress
Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act
9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1886114th CongressTo amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 30114th CongressSave American Workers Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2775114th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1048114th CongressA bill to remove the authority of the Secretary of Energy to amend or issue new energy efficiency standards for ceiling fans.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 139118th CongressOrganized Retail Crime Center Authorization Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1869116th CongressRestoring Investment in Improvements Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 569116th CongressDRIVE-Safe Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 803116th CongressRestoring Investment in Improvements Act7 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee20 filingsthrough 2024
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President20 filingsthrough 2024
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Represenative Robert Aderholt20 filingsthrough 2024
Rontel BatieBatie & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern, Aide, and Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Corrine Brown (Florida)19 filingsthrough 2026
Robert John CurisLowe'S Companies Inc.Covered position: Policy Advisor - Sen. Dem. Policy & Comms Cmte (Sen. Debbie Stabenow); Legislative Aide, Staff Assistant - Sen. Debbie Stabenow19 filingsthrough 2026
Luciano HaydenLowe'S Companies Inc.Covered position: Director of Government Affairs19 filingsthrough 2020
Mervyn JonesBatie & Associates, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant, U.S. Representative Timothy Ryan (Ohio) and Special Assistant, U.S. Representative Joseph Crowley (New York)18 filingsthrough 2026
KEENAN DEWAYNE HALE jrBatie & Associates, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant and Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Al Green (Texas)17 filingsthrough 2026
Craig KalkutWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief of Staff, Senator Kent Conrad16 filingsthrough 2024
Louis Benson PearlmanLowe'S Companies Inc.14 filingsthrough 2020
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter12 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee12 filingsthrough 2016
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld12 filingsthrough 2013
Zachary PaulsenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trd asst for pol, S Fin Comm, 2002-0512 filingsthrough 2013
Rachael PattenBoundary Stone Partners11 filingsthrough 2025
Francine E FriedmanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2013
Alison Mary KennedyBoundary Stone PartnersCovered position: Schedule C Political Appointee at the Department of Energy10 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher BukiWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative John Culberson; Legislative Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bill Shuster; Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative David McKinley10 filingsthrough 2024
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle8 filingsthrough 2015
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle8 filingsthrough 2015
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor7 filingsthrough 2026
Michael LongS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services, Senior Advisor for SpeakerNancy Pelosi; Dep. Floor Director and Advisor, Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi; Special Asst and Staff Asst for Speaker Nancy Pelosi7 filingsthrough 2026
Martin ReiserS-3 GroupCovered position: Policy Director, Republican Whip Steve Scalise, professional staff House Ways and Means Committee, Chief of Staff, Rep. Dan Miller, Budget Associate, House Budget Committee7 filingsthrough 2026
Kristi RemingtonS-3 GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee7 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 40 of 60 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
