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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
33 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: parsons-whittemore-enterprises.
AGR
5 filings
$270K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$270K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$30K 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.
H.R. 4389112th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19 East Merced Street in Fowler, California, as the "Cecil E. Bolt Post Office".1 filingthrough 2011
S. 1462112th CongressSuccess Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
through 2018
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to House Majority Leader22 filingsthrough 2015
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Cong. Nick Smith19 filingsthrough 2016
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.17 filingsthrough 2021
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC9 filingsthrough 2012
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte on Small Business ; ; LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell9 filingsthrough 2012
Zahra BuckCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LA, Rep. Bennie Thompson ; ; Professional Staff, House Homeland Security Cmte3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
