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: mississippi-band-of-choctaw-indians.
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.
GAM
107 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
78 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
56 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
54 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
53 filings
$4M on those filings
Housing
HOU
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
44 filings
$3.3M 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.
110th Congress
Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 919113th CongressDepartment of the Interior Tribal Self-Governance Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2444112th CongressDepartment of the Interior Tribal Self-Governance Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1585116th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2230112th CongressInternet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4271112th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 598112th CongressTo eliminate the preferences and special rules for Alaska Native Corporations under the program under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 236112th CongressA bill to eliminate the preferences and special rules for Alaska Native Corporations under the program under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1873110th CongressSmall Business Fairness in Contracting Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 984110th CongressExecutive Branch Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.3 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Marie HowardHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP31 filingsthrough 2020
Brian Keith HeardTch Group, LLC18 filingsthrough 2014
Craig S BurkhardtBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a17 filingsthrough 2014
Matthew ZiegmanBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Legislative staff, Rep. Krishnamoorthi; Legislative staff, Sen. Manchin.15 filingsthrough 2026
F Michael WillisHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP11 filingsthrough 2016
Carol L BarberoHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP9 filingsthrough 2011
Moriah K O'BrienHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP8 filingsthrough 2020
Michael TongourTch Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2016
Robert GanimBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Leg Asst Sen Kelly Ayotte, Leg Asst Sen Mark Kirk6 filingsthrough 2019
Matthew E MorganBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President; Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Counsel to the Vice President; Deputy Counsel to the Vice President5 filingsthrough 2026
Charles Connor HinsonBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Leg. Staff, Rep Tiberi; Leg. Staff, Sen Portman; Staff, Sen. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Comm.; CWMD Leg. Affairs Analyst, Homeland Security CounteringWeapons of Mass Destruction Office; Leg. Affairs Analyst, DSCA5 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory SmithHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP3 filingsthrough 2014
Jennifer HughesHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP3 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth BaileyHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2026
Claire NewfeldHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2026
Karen J FunkHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2014
Stephen D OsborneHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2014
Ed C GoodmanHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2012
Simpson Bobo DeanHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
Jordan Romero-VillanuevaHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP1 filingthrough 2024
Caitrin M ShuyHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP1 filingthrough 2022
Keith HeardHeard Assoc, KeithCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Thad Cochran1 filingthrough 2017
Caroline P MayhewHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP1 filingthrough 2013
Chris T StearnsHobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 9 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
