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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
72 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
24 filings
$480K on those filings
Education
EDU
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas C DownsDowns Government Affairs24 filingsthrough 2021
Josef NovotnyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Clerk of the House Lorraine Miller - Reading Clerk Clerk of the House Karen Haas - Reading Clerk Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson - Reading Clerk22 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas C DownsSquire Patton Boggs22 filingsthrough 2014
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: missouri-state-university.
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.
22 filings
$715K 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.
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton Boggs16 filingsthrough 2014
Stacy McbrideHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Senator Blunt, Chief of Staff13 filingsthrough 2026
Christian MorganHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Representative Wagner - Chief of Staff8 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas C DownsVenable LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. George Hochbrueckner7 filingsthrough 2015
