27 filings from 1 registrant · 2019–2025 · latest filed Aug 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Agriculture
AGR
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense,Senior Aide and
Director of Scheduling, Senator Chuck Hagel, Staff Assistant, Senator
Chuck Hagel17 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)16 filingsthrough 2025
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)13 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: metrc-llc.
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K 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.
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate
11 filingsthrough 2021
Yaw ThompsonForbes-Tate9 filingsthrough 2025
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate8 filingsthrough 2021
Stacey RollandForbes-TateCovered position: Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2013-2016); Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (2010-2013); Special Assistant, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-2010); Tax Counsel, Rep. Xavier Becerra (2007-2009)7 filingsthrough 2023
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)6 filingsthrough 2021
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).2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
