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-newspaper-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.
TAX
20 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$460K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$505K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$400K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$49K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$320K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$240K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
1 filing
$130K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
1 filing
$130K 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
Employee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act
4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1094118th CongressJournalism Competition and Preservation Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4378118th CongressDeliver for Democracy Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2614117th CongressOpen Courts Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 9839118th CongressTo amend title 39, United States Code, to modernize the Postal Service regulations, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2024
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.
14 filings
through 2026
David OxnerCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Jerry Moran; Prof. Staff, House Financial Services Cmte.; Leg. Assistant/Policy Coordinator, Rep. Paul Gillmor11 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew KaudersCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spksperson/Asst. to D. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency11 filingsthrough 2024
Sara Deforge HoughAmerican Pressworks, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2014
