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: metropolitan-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
40 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
25 filings
$920K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
18 filings
$910K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$840K on those filings
Retirement
RET
14 filings
$800K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$120K 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.
115th Congress
Insurance Company Tax Modernization and Parity Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1994116th CongressSetting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
S. 972116th CongressRetirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2526115th CongressRetirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4061115th CongressFinancial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5485114th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1086114th CongressInternational Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1679114th CongressFlood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4429113th CongressPermanent Active Financing Exception Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
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.
through 2026
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee28 filingsthrough 2026
Rick DearbornMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, President Donald Trump26 filingsthrough 2025
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative AssistantOffice of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, LAOffice of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, LC22 filingsthrough 2020
Stacey HughesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Leg. Asst / Scheduler21 filingsthrough 2020
James C SivonSivon Natter & Wechsler, P.C. (Fka Barnett Sivon & Natter, P.C.)Covered position: Vice President (Attorney)21 filingsthrough 2017
Scott ShewcraftMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Foster13 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew OlmemVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Senate Banking, Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel, Counsel ; ; Senator George Voinovich, Counsel13 filingsthrough 2017
Kendra Kosko IsaacsonMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Pensions Policy Director and Senior Tax Counsel, Sen. Patty Murray11 filingsthrough 2026
Lauren BakerMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Rob Portman11 filingsthrough 2019
J Patrick CaveMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Assistant Secretary, Dept of Treasury (Acting)11 filingsthrough 2016
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: Rep. Hensarling, Leg Counsel, Sen Banking Cmte Counsel ; ; House Republican Conference, Policy Director, Policy Analyst ; ; Fed Housing Finance Board, Counsel to Chairman11 filingsthrough 2016
Emily PorterThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: (continued) Coalitions Dir. for Educ. Policy10 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher C CoxNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)10 filingsthrough 2018
Susan NelsonNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)10 filingsthrough 2018
Andy KeiserNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)10 filingsthrough 2018
Ado Antony MachidaNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)9 filingsthrough 2018
Josh FinestoneNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)5 filingsthrough 2017
Hazen MarshallThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles, Dpty CofSOfce of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles, EconomistU.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant4 filingsthrough 2014
Stuart M LewisBuchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC4 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 26 of 34 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
