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: peloton-interactive-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.
SPO
35 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
19 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$825K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
8 filings
$326K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$340K 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.
117th Congress
Hate Crimes Commission Act of 2021
7 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1843117th CongressCOVID–19 Hate Crimes Act7 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7900118th CongressEPA Accountability to Farm Country Act1 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017)
24 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate23 filingsthrough 2026
Justin KintzPeloton Interactive, Inc.Covered position: Schedule-C Appointee to the Administration of President George W. Bush22 filingsthrough 2026
Jason TaiTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Dan Lipinski; Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Bill Lipinski; Associate Professional Staff Member, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee14 filingsthrough 2024
Matt GinsbergTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC14 filingsthrough 2024
Steven PalmerForbes-Tate14 filingsthrough 2023
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate13 filingsthrough 2024
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications
Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike
DeWine (2005-2006)13 filingsthrough 2023
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)12 filingsthrough 2024
Augustus MaplesTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies10 filingsthrough 2023
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron
Kind (1999-2002)8 filingsthrough 2022
Kelley Julia WilliamsForbes-Tate8 filingsthrough 2022
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate7 filingsthrough 2022
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025)6 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative
Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)6 filingsthrough 2022
Justin KintzForbes-TateCovered position: Special Assistant, External and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior (2007-2009)5 filingsthrough 2025
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)5 filingsthrough 2022
