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: national-association-of-convenience-stores.
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.
TOB
126 filings
$58.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN
123 filings
$57.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
117 filings
$55.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
111 filings
$55.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
95 filings
$50.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
87 filings
$50.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
74 filings
$50.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
72 filings
$14.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
70 filings
$50.2M on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
68 filings
$35.2M 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.
117th Congress
Electric Vehicles for Underserved Communities Act of 2021
H.R. 2575114th CongressTo amend the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 to postpone a scheduled increase in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa.10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2786118th CongressClimate Change Relief for Urban Areas Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1314118th CongressA bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the definition of spouse and surviving spouse to include all individuals lawfully married, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3519118th CongressHot Foods Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3881118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1346119th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2512119th CongressHot Foods Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 593119th CongressNationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2786117th CongressTobacco Tax Equity Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Leslie Belcher
Steptoe LLP
48 filingsthrough 2021
Jessica FrendSteptoe LLP48 filingsthrough 2021
Douglas S KantorSteptoe LLP48 filingsthrough 2021
R Timothy ColumbusSteptoe LLP47 filingsthrough 2021
James BarnetteSteptoe LLPCovered position: General Counsel, House Energy and Commerce47 filingsthrough 2021
Anna Ready BlomNational Association of Convenience StoresCovered position: Sr. LA, Rep. Gowdy; LC, Rep. Barrett43 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth BurksSteptoe LLP38 filingsthrough 2021
Christopher CaronSteptoe LLP38 filingsthrough 2021
THOMAS J BLILEY jrSteptoe LLPCovered position: Chairman, House Energy and Commerce37 filingsthrough 2018
Kate Leanne JensenSteptoe LLP30 filingsthrough 2021
Douglas S. KantorNational Association of Convenience Stores21 filingsthrough 2026
Jason AbelSteptoe LLP21 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher W EddowesAtlas Crossing LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Congressman Lloyd Smucker19 filingsthrough 2026
Margaret Hardin MannionNational Association of Convenience StoresCovered position: Senate Foreign Policy and National Security Fellow; Intern, Rep. Loudermilk18 filingsthrough 2026
David H FialkovSteptoe LLP18 filingsthrough 2015
John ShadeggSteptoe LLP17 filingsthrough 2016
Corey FitzeNational Association of Convenience Stores16 filingsthrough 2013
Leeann GoheenSteptoe LLP10 filingsthrough 2021
Ashley StewartSteptoe LLP10 filingsthrough 2021
Julie Marie FieldsNational Association of Convenience Stores10 filingsthrough 2011
Allison NyholmSteptoe LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Lisa Murkowski9 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 35 of 65 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
