56 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2023 · latest filed Aug 8, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$720K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$720K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
46 filings
$640K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$80K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2708113th CongressUnited States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen ZiehmRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)52 filingsthrough 2022
Kevin WalshRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)Covered position: Special Assistant -office of Senator McCaskill21 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher J BenscherRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)11 filingsthrough 2022
Melissa Lynn KinterRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)9 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2023
Red Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)
Red Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)
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: mtb-coalition-informal-coalition.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4923114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2794114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Caitlin WebberRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)
5 filingsthrough 2010
John F McdermidRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)5 filingsthrough 2009
Laura PearsonRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)3 filingsthrough 2008
Luciana MosoiaRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)2 filingsthrough 2008
Erick FeijooRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)2 filingsthrough 2008
Patrick CostelloRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
