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.
Telecommunications
TEC
52 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2147116th CongressRURAL Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
Jeffery WalterCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Projects Director for Senator Alfonse D'AmatoSpecial Projects Director for Senator Connie MackDeputy Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee57 filingsthrough 2026
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC53 filingsthrough 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Secretary, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln.53 filingsthrough 2026
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: ncta-the-internet-television-association-fka-natl-cable-telecom-assoc.
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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
Revitalizing Underdeveloped Rural Areas and Lands (RURAL) Act
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.
53 filingsthrough 2026
Warren J. TryonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, House Financial Services Committee; Deputy Chief of Staff & LD, Rep. Spencer Bachus.42 filingsthrough 2026
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.42 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Committee Member, Jt. Committee on Taxation20 filingsthrough 2018
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; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.18 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Director, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone.14 filingsthrough 2026
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith9 filingsthrough 2016
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.7 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer Debes BangCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee; Legislative Director, Sr. Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Ander Crenshaw.6 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 13 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
