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: new-york-life-insurance-company.
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.
132 filings
$69.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
100 filings
$37M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
64 filings
$35.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
34 filings
$39.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Housing
HOU
15 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Postal
POS
14 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$16.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$500K 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
Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018
11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2050114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2474116th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Jeffrey Levey
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
44 filingsthrough 2025
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: US Rep. Ben Cardin, Chief of Staff (1987-2002)39 filingsthrough 2020
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip33 filingsthrough 2025
GEORGE NICHOLS iiiNew York Life Insurance Company33 filingsthrough 2016
Alison O'DonnellNew York Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: Sr. Economic Policy Advisor, Sen. Jon Tester; Staff Director, Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcmte & Economic Policy Subcmte, Senate Banking Cmte; Legislative Director, Rep. A. Davis; Legislative Assistant, Rep. J. Matheson29 filingsthrough 2021
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee28 filingsthrough 2026
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries27 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader26 filingsthrough 2025
Courtney SchoenbornNew York Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: NA26 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary K OstroMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin Kelly25 filingsthrough 2026
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax Counsel and Leg. Director Sen. Baucus (1993-1995) ; ; Chief Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Dem. staff (1997-1999)24 filingsthrough 2017
Kerry ColeNew York Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: N/A23 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 Hon.JohnR. Kasich,Leg. Dir,Leg.Asst Intern22 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher C CoxNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)22 filingsthrough 2014
Philmore B AndersonNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)22 filingsthrough 2014
Whytne BrooksNew York Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: N/A21 filingsthrough 2024
Charlie SchreiberMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Law clerk, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee20 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa PetoMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee Majority Staff17 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle KizzierNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)17 filingsthrough 2014
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/16 filingsthrough 2023
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.15 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 80 of 115 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
