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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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-retail-federation.
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.
CSP
139 filings
$115.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
120 filings
$102.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
113 filings
$114.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN
107 filings
$113.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
100 filings
$113.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
72 filings
$112.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
62 filings
$87.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
59 filings
$85.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
58 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Postal
POS
51 filings
$86.9M 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
PATENT Act
20 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202317 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 202117 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 30114th CongressSave American Workers Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 201615 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 703114th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act15 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 704114th CongressRFS Reform Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 155114th CongressFair Tax Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 177114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 30114th CongressForty Hours Is Full Time Act of 201515 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.
Pete AguilarD-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20, H.R. 4889 +1 more
107 filings
3 lobbyists
Hakeem S. JeffriesD-New York-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20
105 filings
3 lobbyists
James E. ClyburnD-South Carolina-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20, H.R. 4889
105 filings
3 lobbyists
Katherine M. ClarkD-Massachusetts-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20
105 filings
3 lobbyists
Nancy PelosiD-California-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20, H.R. 4889
105 filings
3 lobbyists
Richard E. NealD-Massachusetts-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20
105 filings
3 lobbyists
Scott PerryR-Pennsylvania-AL
Bills: H.J.Res. 116, H.J.Res. 98, H.R. 2826 +4 more
94 filings
3 lobbyists
Adelita S. GrijalvaD-Arizona-AL
Bills: H.R. 17, H.R. 20, H.R. 5408
56 filings
3 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Edward Neil TrautweinNational Retail Federation
58 filingsthrough 2020
Paul G MartinoNational Retail Federation51 filingsthrough 2024
Robert GreenNational Retail Federation45 filingsthrough 2017
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen43 filingsthrough 2024
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs43 filingsthrough 2024
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham, Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor43 filingsthrough 2024
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence43 filingsthrough 2024
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Correspondent,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Aide,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Appropriations Coordinator, Sen. McConnell, Sr. Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Chief of Staff, Sen. McConnell43 filingsthrough 2024
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House43 filingsthrough 2024
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering43 filingsthrough 2024
Jason StraczewskiNational Retail Federation38 filingsthrough 2026
Dylan JeonNational Retail FederationCovered position: LA, LC, and intern, Rep. Dan Benishek, 2014 - 201737 filingsthrough 2026
Stephanie MartzNational Retail FederationCovered position: Covered executive branch official-Senior Counsel & Special Assistant to President 2014-2015. Covered legislative branch official - Chief Counsel, Senator Charles Schumer 2009-201435 filingsthrough 2026
Charles L MerinPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A35 filingsthrough 2018
Josh UlmanUlman Public Policy & Federal Relations34 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer OrtegaUlman Public Policy & Federal RelationsCovered position: Staff assistant for Rep. Todd Rokita34 filingsthrough 2026
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole32 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth ProvenzanoNational Retail Federation31 filingsthrough 2017
Brian Elizabeth SimmonsNational Retail FederationCovered position: LA, Rep. and then Sen. Tim Scott, 2011 - 201530 filingsthrough 2020
Kathryn Anna BransonUlman Public Policy & Federal RelationsCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. Lou Barletta27 filingsthrough 2026
Mark WilliamsFerox StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Conaway // Chief of Staff, Rep. Todd Rokita // Dep. Chief of Staff/Leg. Director, Rep. Sam Johnson.26 filingsthrough 2026
EDWIN WALTER EGEE vNational Retail Federation23 filingsthrough 2026
