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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
71 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
4 filings
$250K on those filings
Defense
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John SimpsonCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers29 filingsthrough 2025
Robert Barry CroweRb Crowe LLC Formerly Known as Robert CroweCovered position: Lobbyist; Lobbyist23 filingsthrough 2025
John KingstonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1993-2015, Congressman-U.S. House of Representatives16 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas S AndrewsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2009-2013:SA/LC and Sr SA, Rep. John Boehner; 2013-2015:SA to Speaker John Boehner; 2015-2018: Dir of Member Services, Speaker Paul Ryan; 2018- 2021: SA to President for Leg Affairs, White House
The filings
The 20 most recent of 72 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: newsmax.
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.
DEF
3 filings
$190K 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.
16 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan ThompsonLive Oak StrategiesCovered position: Rep. Ron Wright: Chief of Staff; Rep. Joe Barton: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Special Assistant11 filingsthrough 2025
Michael D. HawthorneSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2022: Law Clerk Sen Judiciary; 2021: Law Clerk House Ways and Means; 2020: Law Clerk Sen Perm Subc on Investigations and US Office of Spec Counsel; 2018: Intern Off of the President; 2017 Intern Speaker Ryan and Whip Scalise; 2016 Intern Rep LoBiondo7 filingsthrough 2025
Camilo Andres Daza MangaSquire Patton Boggs6 filingsthrough 2024
Margaret MullaneySquire Patton Boggs2 filingsthrough 2026
David MalechLive Oak StrategiesCovered position: Rep. Kevin Brady: Legislative Director; Rep. John Campbell: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director; Sen. Phil Gramm: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Press Assistant2 filingsthrough 2025
Jennifer GoedkeSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dec 2024-Jan 2026: CoS, Rep. George Whitesides; Dec 2020- Dec 2024: CoS, Rep. Jared Huffman; May 2014-Dec 2020: Dep. CoS. Rep. Mike Thompson, Jan 2013-Jul 2013: Dep. CoS, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Jul 2006-Jan 2013: Dep. CoS, Rep. Lynn Woolsey1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
