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.
Josh AlkinOffice of the Commissioner of BaseballCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Byron Dorgan45 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa EllmanHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: 2013 - 2014: Department of Justice,2011 - 2013: White House Executive Office of the President,2009 - 2011: Department of Justice, 2009: White House Executive Office of the President29 filingsthrough 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: office-of-the-commissioner-of-baseball.
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.
33 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
27 filings
$710K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
21 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
20 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
18 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
18 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
17 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
15 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
13 filings
$3.5M 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.
116th Congress
Better Oversight of Secondary Sales and Accountability in Concert Ticketing Act of 2019
H.R. 3570111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5034111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6390111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3851111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
S. 259116th CongressRodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
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.
William H SchweitzerBaker & Hostetler LLP24 filingsthrough 2015
Michael J BellHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Special Asst to the Atty Gen Legislative Affairs DOJ (2003-2005); Dpty Assoc. Dir for Personnel The White House (2001-2003)13 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel A. KohlBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: N/A12 filingsthrough 2015
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2020
Liz ForroHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - 2023-20245 filingsthrough 2026
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Chief Tax Counsel - Sen. Finance Com. (Democratic) - 97-995 filingsthrough 2018
Robert A GarrettArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 2001-05 - Legislative Counsel, Joint Tax Committee; 2011-14 - Tax Counsel/Special Advisor-Tax Reform, House Ways & Means Committee3 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa WolskiErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax counsel, Sen. Jon Kyl, 2003-07; staff director, Senate Finance Tax & IRS Oversight Subcomm., 2005-06; deputy chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2008-09; chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2009-20112 filingsthrough 2025
Norm ColemanHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)1 filingthrough 2025
Jennifer WalshErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2018
Jeffrey EricksonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2018
John Zachary OldakErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 8 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
