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.
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
3 filings
$180K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 386116th CongressFairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S.Res. 461116th CongressA resolution congratulating Seattle Sounders FC on winning the 2019 Major League Soccer Cup.3 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel4 filingsthrough 2020
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Member, United States House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2020
Ed McclellanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Finance2 filingsthrough 2020
Muftiah Mccartin
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: major-league-soccer-llc-mls.
Covington & Burling LLP
Covered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk
1 filingthrough 2020
Morgan SchreursCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk (May-July 2016, August-December 2017)1 filingthrough 2020
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)1 filingthrough 2019
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
