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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
39 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
34 filings
$1M on those filings
Defense
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 37 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Ways and Means Committee; Staff Director, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee41 filingsthrough 2026
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Adv., Sen. Repub Conf.; Leg. Dir., Sen. Blunt; Leg. Dir., Rep. Blunt; Sr. Policy Adv., Hse Repub Whip; Sr. Policy Adv., House Maj. Whip; Research Analyst, House Maj. Whip; Spec. Asst. to the Chief Deputy Whip31 filingsthrough 2023
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff assistant to Sen. Coats22 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 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: lumen-technologies-formerly-known-as-centurylink-inc.
DEF
3 filings
$90K 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
ALIGN Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1639119th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1688119th CongressGrowing America’s Small Businesses and Manufacturing Act3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Jan Fowler
The Washington Tax & Public Policy Group
Covered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Voinovich; Leg. Assistant, Leg. Correspondent, Staff Asst, Intern for Rep. McCrery
14 filingsthrough 2019
Kelli BriggsThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, 12th Congressional District of Ohio; Chief of Staff, D.C. Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern for Rep. Tiberi12 filingsthrough 2021
James Max PedrottiThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller8 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
