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: natso-inc.
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
78 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
74 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
73 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Banking
BAN
72 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
70 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
59 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
48 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$881K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$1.1M 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 2118117th CongressClean Energy for America Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 4038117th CongressRenewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Parity Act of 20221 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 31112th CongressFannie Mae and Freddie Mac Accountability and Transparency for Taxpayers Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2156111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Stephen BeaulieuNatso, Inc.Covered position: Director8 filingsthrough 2010
David FialkovFfg Group6 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica FrendFfg Group6 filingsthrough 2026
Leeann GoheenFfg Group6 filingsthrough 2026
Thereza CevidanesFfg Group6 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan AbrahamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senate Finance Committee - 2004-09; SFC Tax Counsel - 2010-185 filingsthrough 2022
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Press Secretary - Sen. Finance Comm. - 1999-2001; Public Affairs - Treasury Dept.- 2001-04; Communications Dir. - President's Advisory on Fed. Tax Reform - 20054 filingsthrough 2022
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 2003-06 Staff Dir. Senate Committee on Small Business4 filingsthrough 2022
Shannon MeadeNatso, Inc.Covered position: Senior Director, Government and Political Affairs4 filingsthrough 2016
