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: massachusetts-mutual-life-insurance-company.
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.
INS
126 filings
$56.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET
119 filings
$42.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
33 filings
$26.8M on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
22 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$540K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
5 filings
$540K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$3M on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Retirement Plan Simplification and Enhancement Act of 2013
15 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.11 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6204113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173113th CongressBrownfield Redevelopment and Economic Development Innovative Financing Act of 20149 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1557113th CongressChildren's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 401111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Kirsten T Johnson-ObeyPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Bruce F. Vento16 filingsthrough 2013
Derek B DornDavis & Harman LLPCovered position: Senior Finance Counsel, Senator Bingaman15 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer ReadPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs13 filingsthrough 2024
Jill BrownMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company12 filingsthrough 2026
Nathan DavernMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company12 filingsthrough 2016
Kenneth S CohenMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company12 filingsthrough 2011
Leslie OgdenUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern to Sen. Kay Hagan11 filingsthrough 2016
Nick FimekUrban Swirski & Associates, LLCCovered position: Intern for Senator Mark Kirk10 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES M DELAPLANE jrDavis & Harman LLP10 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 23 of 44 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
