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-automated-merchandising-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.
MON
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$20K 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
Payment Choice Act of 2025
2 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2326119th CongressPayment Choice Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Porter Group, LLC
1 filingthrough 2026
Bradley SolyanPorter Group, LLCCovered position: former House staff1 filingthrough 2026
Brian BatesPorter Group, LLCCovered position: former House staff1 filingthrough 2025
Kathee FacchianoVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Clay Higgins; Legislative Director and General Counsel, Senator Rand Paul; Legislative Director, Senator John Boozman; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Congressman John Booman; LA, Congressman Randy Forbes1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
