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: niskanen-center-for-public-policy.
$160K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
15 filings
$290K on those filings
Retirement
RET
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Education
EDU
11 filings
$190K on those filings
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$190K on those filings
Unemployment
UNM
10 filings
$170K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$170K on those filings
Defense
DEF
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
8 filings
$190K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$90K 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.
119th Congress
Family First Act
5 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1382119th CongressFamily First Act5 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2828119th CongressChild Care Modernization Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3507118th CongressYes In My Backyard Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5918118th CongressOperation Swords of Iron Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6199118th CongressBuild More Housing Near Transit Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3216118th CongressBuild More Housing Near Transit Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 6188118th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5768117th CongressVICTIM Act of 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6644119th Congress21st Century ROAD to Housing Act4 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3379119th CongressEARLY Benefits for Workers Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Asst Sec. for Legis. Affairs, Treasury; Counselor, Treasury; COS, Sen McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, R Comm Center, Sen McConnell; Dep Com Dir, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, HUD7 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew UsykBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Robert Casey; Legislative Aide Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Compliance Officer, Sen. Gillibrand; Intern, Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. John Dingell4 filingsthrough 2024
Brandt AndersonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Committee on Veterans Affairs; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep Jackie Walorski; Legislative Director, Rep Jim Banks; Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Ted Cruz; National Security Advisor, Senator Todd Young4 filingsthrough 2024
David ReidBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
Kate GonzalesBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Sinema; Legislative Aide, Rep. Sinema; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sinema; Scheduler and Director of Operations, Rep. Sinema2 filingsthrough 2024
Samuel HammondNiskanen Center for Public Policy2 filingsthrough 2020
Jason OlinNiskanen Center for Public Policy1 filingthrough 2024
Elizabeth Anne MaierBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Dir Sen Jon Kyl; Sen Policy Advisor Sen Jon Kyl; Leg Asst Sen Jon Kyl; Leg Asst Rep Jon Kyl; Prof Staff House Sel Comm on Children Youth & Families1 filingthrough 2022
Daniel TakashNiskanen Center for Public Policy1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 6 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
