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.
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: new-venture-fund.
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.
MMM
46 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
39 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
34 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
32 filings
$600K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
32 filings
$70K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
30 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
28 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
17 filings
Science/Technology
SCI
14 filings
$150K 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.
115th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018
10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 561118th CongressEACH Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1031118th CongressEACH Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 758116th CongressEqual Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 771115th CongressEqual Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2901113th CongressSenator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20187 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1662115th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20187 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 14119th CongressEstablishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1091119th CongressCarried Interest Fairness Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Kai AndersonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Reid27 filingsthrough 2025
Megan DapperCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Energy and Natural Resources26 filingsthrough 2025
Amelia Fine JenkinsCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Dep Staff Dir/Sen Policy Advisor-House Comm Nat'l Resources;Prin Dep Asst Sec-Congressional Aff. Dept of Energy; Staff Dir- Subcomittee on Water & Power; Sr Leg Staff-House Comm on Resources; Leg. Dir-Cong George Miller; Leg. Aide-Cong Peter De Fazio25 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel RitterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Subcomm. on Arts, Education & Humanities25 filingsthrough 2016
James JochumJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Assistant Secretary for Import Admin, Department of Commerce; Assistant Secretary for Export Admin, Department of Commerce; Trade Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Charles Grassley; Trade Counsel, Senate Banking Committee23 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew ShoreJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference; Director of Policy and Coalitions, House Republican Conference; Legislative Director, Congressman Phil Crane; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bill Archer; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Nussle23 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Counselor to Asst AG/Dep Asst AG, DOJ; Gen ; ; Counsel/LD, Rep Smith21 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher Michael SullivanKyle House GroupCovered position: Legislative Asst. Senator Isakson; Staff Director Senate Finance Subcommittee International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness20 filingsthrough 2018
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP20 filingsthrough 2016
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman20 filingsthrough 2015
Karen TramontanoBlue Star Strategies LLC19 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel SchumanNew Venture FundCovered position: N/A19 filingsthrough 2022
Darin Lynn GardnerJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Research Assistant, Senate HELP Committee, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Tim Hutchison19 filingsthrough 2019
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-0417 filingsthrough 2021
Denise DesiderioAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dep Staff Dir, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Feb 13-Jan 14; Snr Cnsl, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Jan 09-Feb 13; Cnslr, Office of Gen Cnsl for the Nat Indian Gaming Commission, Sep 05-Dec 09; Special Assist to the Assist Secretary for Ind Affairs, Jan 03-Sep 0513 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah ChristophersonNew Venture FundCovered position: House of Representatives: Staff assistant, Legislative correspondent, Legislative assistant, Senior legislative assistant, Legislative director, Legislative director/Washington director12 filingsthrough 2023
Kelley HudakCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Coalitions Director to Republican Whip Steve Scalise; Business Coalitions Coordinator for Republican Whip Steve Scalise12 filingsthrough 2022
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, 1997-9912 filingsthrough 2020
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00;
Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-9912 filingsthrough 2020
