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.
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)14 filingsthrough 2025
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)14 filingsthrough 2025
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)14 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: lykos-therapeutics.
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.
18 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
18 filings
$1.6M 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.
118th Congress
Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act
5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3393118th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2483119th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 3944119th CongressMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 2121119th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
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.
Michael Alexander Williams
Forbes-Tate
Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)
14 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)12 filingsthrough 2024
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee (2003); Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus (1999-2002)12 filingsthrough 2024
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2024
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)9 filingsthrough 2025
Paul DioguardiForbes-TateCovered position: Director, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (2009-2015)8 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan J TaylorForbes-TateCovered position: CD, S. Wicker (2013-2018); PA, Sen. Rep. Pol Comt (2012-2013); S. PA, Sen. Rep. Vice-Chair (2011-2012); PS, Rep. Lummis (2009-2010); Dep. CD, Sen. Barrasso (2007-2008); Dep. PS, S. Thomas (2007); Dep. CD, Sen. HELP (2005-2007); SA, S. Enzi (2004)7 filingsthrough 2024
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate5 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)4 filingsthrough 2023
Andres RamirezForbes-Tate3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 10 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
