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.
Banking
BAN
29 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
23 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 870115th CongressREAL Space Act6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1774115th CongressEmployee Rights Act6 filingsthrough 2018
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-public-finance-guarantee-corporation.
TAX
23 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$580K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$580K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$660K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$60K 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.
114th Congress
Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015
4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1774114th CongressPuerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 20154 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.
Cheri BustosMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Senator 2023-2023
9 filingsthrough 2025
Denny R RehbergMercury Public Affairs, LLC8 filingsthrough 2017
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLC7 filingsthrough 2019
Tyler ThreadgillMercury Public Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2016
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2015
Vincent FrilliciMercury Public Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2015
ROBERT L SMITH iiMercury Public Affairs, LLC2 filingsthrough 2022
Toby MoffettMercury Public Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2023
Vince GalkoMercury Public Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 3 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
