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.
Natural Resources
NAT
29 filings
$820K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$700K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4680114th CongressNational Park Service Centennial Act1 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Josh KardonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Ron WydenLD/Press Secretary, Senator Ron WydenStaff Director, House Gov Affairs Committee29 filingsthrough 2020
Ethan PittlemanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR)24 filingsthrough 2020
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; and Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert22 filingsthrough 2020
Bradley Mollet
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-park-conservation-association.
fees reported
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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.
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$120K 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.
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation7 filingsthrough 2016
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide and Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Bryan6 filingsthrough 2016
David CarmenCarmen Group Incorporated3 filingsthrough 2024
Dallam B Harper IiiCarmen Group Incorporated3 filingsthrough 2024
Jim GottliebCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director/Gen. Counsel, House Gov Ops Cmte3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
