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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
71 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 56 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.5 filingsthrough 2022
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: motion-picture-association.
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.
TRD
35 filings
$178K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$88K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
14 filings
$350K on those filings
Insurance
INS
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
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.
119th Congress
CREATE Act
4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2530119th CongressCREATE Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2426116th CongressCASE Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1273116th CongressCASE Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
33 filingsthrough 2026
Justin RzepkaBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg. Aide Sen. Ensign33 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel R MurphyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HUD Secretary; Personal Aide Vice President Quayle; Field Rep. Sen. Quayle; Intern Rep. Hiler; Intern, Sen. Quayle30 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt23 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency22 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV20 filingsthrough 2026
Joel D. BaileyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS Rep. Panetta; LD Rep. Ashford; LD Rep. Matheson; Sr. LA Rep. Matsui; LA, Sr. LA Rep. Baron Hill; Intern Rep. Rahall17 filingsthrough 2025
RANDOLPH KARL HERNDON jrCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Pat Toomey; Policy Director/Tax Counsel, Rep. Jim Renacci15 filingsthrough 2023
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT14 filingsthrough 2012
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub14 filingsthrough 2012
Syd TerryBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Rep. Jan Schakowsky; Policy Coordinator for Energy & Commerce; LD, Rep. Jan Schakowsky; Sr. LA, Rep. Mark Pocan; LA for Rep Pocan, Intern Senator Salazar, Intern Senator Levin10 filingsthrough 2026
Pete LandrumBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Defense Policy Advisor Sen. Session10 filingsthrough 2023
Maya SeidenBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing8 filingsthrough 2020
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.6 filingsthrough 2026
James DennisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen Robb - Counsel, Sen Bingaman4 filingsthrough 2008
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senate Finance Comm:Chief Democratic Tax Counsel; Sen. Finance Comm.: Tax Counsel/Chief Investigative Counsel; House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel.3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 23 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
