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: mgic.
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.
TAX
28 filings
$810K on those filings
Banking
BAN
27 filings
$1M on those filings
Housing
HOU
27 filings
$410K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
8 filings
$170K 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.
118th Congress
Mortgage Insurance Tax Deduction Act of 2023
6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4212118th CongressMiddle Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2003119th CongressStrengthening Benefit Plans Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1384118th CongressMiddle Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Covered position:
34 filingsthrough 2024
Bryan BlomPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Banking Committee on NSIT; Minority Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities and Insurance; Leg Director, Rep. Duffy; Leg Clerk, House Judiciary; Leg Assistant, Rep. Young; Intern, Rep. Sensenbrenner25 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas LiebeExel Advisors23 filingsthrough 2024
Benjamin TurnerPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. John Delaney; Legislative Assistant/Legal Counsel, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Aide, Rep. Joe Courtney19 filingsthrough 2019
Jason PitcockPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLC14 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew LowenthalPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Evan Bayh11 filingsthrough 2015
