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.
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
10 filings
$610K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
5 filings
$400K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003)13 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered 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)13 filingsthrough 2026
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)
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: merck-kgaa-darmstadt-germany.
5 filings
$400K 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.
7 filingsthrough 2024
Edward Jeffrey HillForbes-Tate5 filingsthrough 2026
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025)5 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012).4 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009)3 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)2 filingsthrough 2025
Justin KintzForbes-TateCovered position: Special Assistant, External and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior (2007-2009)2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
