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-stone-sand-and-gravel-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.
73 filings
$7.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
68 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
62 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
55 filings
$7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
29 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
16 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$1.2M 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.
116th Congress
CARES Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1004115th CongressRegulatory Integrity Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1732114th CongressRegulatory Integrity Protection Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2302116th CongressAmerica's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1380115th CongressTimber Innovation Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Michael LiptakNational Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociationCovered position: Director, Government Affairs17 filingsthrough 2014
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor-Office of Speaker John Boehner; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs- VP Cheney; Chief of Staff-Rep. Pat Toomey; Legislative Assistant- Sen. Hank Brown16 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer Joy PinnigerNational Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociationCovered position: President & CEO16 filingsthrough 2012
Graham Young HillTaft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP)Covered position: Staff Director & Sr. Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure15 filingsthrough 2026
Geoffrey Grant BurrBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff at US DOT; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs at US DOL12 filingsthrough 2021
WILLIAM NILE ELAM ivNational Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociationCovered position: LC, Paul Gosar11 filingsthrough 2021
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief Speechwriter, HUD; Chief Speechwriter, Sen Mitch McConnell; Deputy Comm Dir, Sen Mitch McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, Republican Comm Center, Sen Mitch McConnell; Chief of Staff, Sen Mitch McConnell4 filingsthrough 2018
RA EDWARDS iiiNational Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociationCovered position: President & CEO4 filingsthrough 2013
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel Sen Boxer; Legislative Director Senator Shaheen3 filingsthrough 2021
Patrick MorriseySidley Austin LLPCovered position: Administrative Assistant, Rep. Dan Frisa2 filingsthrough 2008
Mira LezellNational Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociationCovered position: Policy Advs; Staff Dir, Sr PSM, H&T Sub-- T&I; Sr Govt Affairs Ofcr-USDOT; CoS, Acting CoS, DCoS & LD, LD-- Rep Barletta; Sr Approps Advs, Approps LA - Rep Wolf; LA & SA, Rep McHugh; RA-- HSGAC1 filingthrough 2026
Katelynn BradleyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Director of Investor and Capital Markets Policy, House Committee on Financial Services; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Financial Services1 filingthrough 2020
