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: nyse-group-inc.
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
14 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
7 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$970K 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.
through 2010
S. 1074111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3091112th CongressTo make permanent the individual income tax rates for capital gains and dividends.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1647112th CongressA bill to repeal the sunset on the reduction of capital gains rates for individuals and on the taxation of dividends of individuals at capital gain rates.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3126111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3795111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2927111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4912110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the treatment of prepaid derivative contracts.5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2877111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean14 filingsthrough 2013
Linda Dallas RichNyse Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2010
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Dick Gephardt7 filingsthrough 2012
Brian BallardBallard Partners6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael LarosaBallard PartnersCovered position: (Lobbying limited to Congress) EA, Congresswoman Bean; Assistant to DepDir, OPM; Comm Dir, ENRC, Senate; DPCC, Comm Dir, Speaker Pelosi; Biden Harris Transition Team, Press Sec. First Lady; SA to President Biden; Press Sec. First Lady6 filingsthrough 2026
Dawn StumpNyse Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Prof. Staff - S. Cmte Ag, Nutrition & Forestry6 filingsthrough 2012
